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Yes! Today is a good day to reread Phil Haack’s 2014 essay on the lengths MS goes to for backwards compatibility: https://haacked.com/archive/2014/05/27/backwar

Yes! Today is a good day to reread Phil Haack’s 2014 essay on the lengths MS goes to for backwards compatibility: https://haacked.com/archive/2014/05/27/backwards-compatibility/ https://haacked.com/archive/2014/05/27/backwards-compatibili... Edit: Haack heavily cites Raymond Chen from 2003: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42163 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42...

stouset 6y ago
On the flip side, supporting all that backward compatibility has been a massive anchor on Microsoft's ability to move Windows forward from decisions made in the past.
- Ericson2314 6y ago
  Yeah Microsoft is a like King John signing the Magna Carta to keep the thrown. Apple is like Louis XIV.
  - dmichulke 6y ago
    I believe you mean throne. Still, as developer on the JVM I find the concept of a "Game of throwns" exceptional.
    - aspyct 6y ago
      Ahah, "Game of throwns". Can only imagine the disaster :D
      - MaxBarraclough 6y ago
        Be sure to catch every episode. And optionally rethrow.
    - Ericson2314 6y ago
      Oops!
macintux 6y ago
And of course Sinofsky from this summer. https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-strategy-and-execution-7544a76aa26 https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-stra...