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Funny you say that, because Microsoft's software problems are often attributed to bending over backwards to be backward compatible while other vendors like Appl
by cooldeal 14y ago
Funny you say that, because Microsoft's software problems are often attributed to bending over backwards to be backward compatible while other vendors like Apple quickly kills compatibility with almost ever release, with even point releases.
Take this game bundled with Windows 95. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/games/public/AAS/Hover.exe
It runs even on Windows 8. Upgrading from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14
As I said in another comment, I still see some ASP and Visual Basic usage even after all these years, those applications are still supported in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Microsoft stopped making new versions because it wanted to move on to better technology. Want to take a poll on HN about what developers think of Visual Basic and Classic ASP? A case of damned if they do, damned if they don't.
- jasomill 14y agoRight, but this is largely orthogonal to the problems with Metro on the desktop. Sandboxed Mac App Store apps are limited, but need not be written against an entirely new set of APIs that is not only unsupported by previous versions of the OS, but unsupported by non-App Store apps running on the current OS version. Say what you will about the Mac App Store, it at least doesn't suffer from all the problems inherent in the iOS App Store model. Metro does.