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Explain to me how win32 APIs from the 90s were still a thing on win mobile in the mid 2000s? On the enterprise front, yes they probably want to push but you ig
by jmspring 3y ago
Explain to me how win32 APIs from the 90s were still a thing on win mobile in the mid 2000s? On the enterprise front, yes they probably want to push but you ignore how often there are Windows EOL announcements where things are extended for large "enterprises" including government and large customers.
- coldtea 3y ago>Explain to me how win32 APIs from the 90s were still a thing on win mobile in the mid 2000s? Not sure what you're asking. I didn't say they kill and stop supporting old APIs. I said they keeping putting out and pushing for "new hotness" APIs/frameworks, forgetting their old APIs/frameworks with an alarming rate. A 20 year old API still working is good. A 20 year old API properly maintained and updated, instead of having several new APIs/frameworks introduced and killed in between, with like the 5th "doomed to be replaced soon" API/framework now pushed as "THE" way to do things, is even better.
- jmspring 3y agoPlanned obsolesence was mentioned, legacy APIs being maintained and old programs continuing to run... that's not obsoleting anything.
- coldtea 3y agoYeah, I know. Which is why I already wrote in my original comment "Maybe [they do] not [have] "planned obsolesence", but they do however have a "API incontinence".