IIRC, backward compatibility was taking a great deal of "blame" for delaying VISTA. We went through this on this list maybe two months ago. Remember that M$ guy who blogged about it?
[OT] So what's the deal here? Is M$ taking its cue from the Bush administration or is it the other way around? HALinNY => -----Original Message----- => From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions => Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 23:30 => To: [email protected] => Subject: Re: [NF] -- Vista, not improving security? => => Ed Leafe wrote: => => > On Sep 1, 2006, at 1:34 AM, Bill Anderson wrote: => > => >> He isn't surprised. "I don't think you can expect apps => written a year => >> ago to support new [operating system] changes," he says. => > => > => > Yeah, that's the design philosophy I would base my => company's IT => > department on. => => => Just another reminder of the kudos to the Fox team for the backward => compatibility they strived for all those years. Too bad M$ => didn't learn => more from them. (Well, LINQ and other ideas/enhancements in => DotNet have => come from the Fox team in some fashion.) => => -- => => Michael J. Babcock, MCP _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
