Re: Putting the 'Mono debate' back on the rails

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

[snip]
> That's how MS took over the world, by providing full backwards
> compatibility with MS-DOS apps of 1981.

MS also do parallel installs in order to provide new functionality without
breaking old applications. For instance, the MSVC++ DLLs.

Going off topic: As someone who has wasted countless weeks creating
installations for Windows applications, I believe that the idea of
backwards compatability (or even compatibility between various installs of
the supposedly same versions of Windows) is a myth. There are problems and
people work around them. People who are tied to Windows don't bother much
complaining about it because they know nobody's listening.

[snip]


Murray Cumming
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