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One of things that at least the old Microsoft was really good at was backward comparability.

• sn_master 7y ago
  Did they break that recently ?
  • Ididntdothis 7y ago
    They keep compatibility but abandon a lot of stuff. If they switch to JavaScript VBA development will slow to almost nothing and it will take years for the JavaScript stuff to catch up, if ever. Something similar happened with visual studio. 2008 was really nice, very customizable and fast. Then they redid everything in 2010 and the result was slower with way less capability. And even now there are still a lot of features that 2008 had not implemented.
    • atesti 7y ago
      I also love vs2008 over vs2010 and still use it for some projects just because it feels so nice and snappy. But which features exactly are missing in vs2010 that were in vs2008 (except the snappy feeling)? I have not actually noticed anything missing and would like to know more
      • Ididntdothis 7y ago
        2008 had an excellent macro recorder which was gone on 2010. 2008 had an easy way to customize toolbars and menus by drag and drop. With 2010 setting up a toolbar is much harder. There were a few other things but I don’t remember right now.
  • mschaef 7y ago
    Joel Spolsky was making the claim that they had, fifteen years ago. (And I really tend to agree with him, both then and now.) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... (Particularly relevant to this article, because Spolsky was the original 'designer' for the Excel/VBA integration: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... )