> [Windows] is fragmented. But not in the developer sense. We develop windows applications and have to support XP and up. We certainly notice fragmentation "in

> [Windows] is fragmented. But not in the developer sense. We develop windows applications and have to support XP and up. We certainly notice fragmentation "in the developer sense". To give some examples, we can't use true filesystem transactions[1] or the ribbon UI[2]. These aren't available as "backported developer libraries". Sometimes we run into bugs[3] which were never fixed in earlier versions. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd371191(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd37... [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/617253/is-anyone-successfully-using-registration-free-com-with-net-components http://stackoverflow.com/questions/617253/is-anyone-successf...