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Microsoft ships an entire OS and apps too. Hard to break an API when the teams using it can walk down the hallway and yell at you.
by phendrenad2 3y ago
Microsoft ships an entire OS and apps too. Hard to break an API when the teams using it can walk down the hallway and yell at you.
- t0mas88 3y agoThey go much further than that, checking and fixing compatibility with all kinds of third party software.
- benj111 3y agoThere's a story about them getting SimCity working on some new os. My Google Fu is failing me though.
- knallfrosch 3y agoSearch for "SimCity" here How Microsoft Lost the API War https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...