On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can have the luxury of breaking that when you're not the biggest > business software vendor in the world. Different for Apple who operate > largely outside the corporate space. >
You mean like the Win16 to Win32 thunk support? Or the Windows 98 to Windows NT transition? The move from multibyte character sets and code pages to Unicode? And the coup de grace, leaving VB6 and VFP high and dry? Oh, puh-leez! Everybody breaks past code. Good companies provide fallbacks and compatibility layers. Still running OS X Tiger on a 5-year-old PowerPC iMac... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ 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 Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
