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> syncing with 64-bit Outlook How is that even a problem in the first place? I really will never understand some of the situations Microsoft gets themselves in
by jcromartie 16y ago
> syncing with 64-bit Outlook
How is that even a problem in the first place? I really will never understand some of the situations Microsoft gets themselves into.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoOutlook is MS's preferred utility for storing contacts. Syncing your contacts on a winmo phone means importing them into outlook, essentially.
- warfangle 16y agoHis point was, what is so fundamentally different about the 64 bit Outlook APIs from the 32 bit ones that would fundamentally break syncing behavior with mobile phones? And, "How was building in this kind of incompatibility a good thing, anyways?" From what I've read of Microsoft culture, it was probably because the Outlook team wanted to sabotage the WinMo7 team for some inexplicable and kafkaesque scheme to make themselves look better. Then again, that's speculation.
- wmf 16y agoI have no idea what causes this particular problem, but Office is notorious for just writing in-memory data structures to disk and calling it a "file format", which would make 32-bit and 64-bit incompatible.
- glhaynes 16y agoI've heard people say that, for example, the fact that a Linux system is made of pieces from a million different projects is beneficial to its evolution because doing this kind of crap simply isn't an option. Solid, well-defined interfaces between components are a must (and if they aren't an absolute must, they won't exist - not necessarily because of laziness but because of deadlines) in systems that are made from lots of independent groups' components.
- wmf 16y agoI think there is some merit to that idea, but Linux may have taken it too far when adding a syscall is like negotiating a multilateral treaty between the kernel, glibc, and applications.