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Mike Kolitz says that MS should take the 16-bit subsystems out of Longhorn. I agree completely. Chris Anderson had a different opinion at PDC about this, but I still don't agree with his position. Microsoft needs to not enable the crap of yesterday in the OS of tomorrow. Break stuff if you have to. Put VPC in Longhorn and disable it by default. I can understand leaving the 32-bit native stuff in there, but the 16-bit stuff too? Come on. Move forward, and don't look back.
Posted: Feb 08 2004, 09:56 PM by interscape | with 2 comment(s)

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James Crowley said:

Exactly. Sure, provide backward compatibility when it makes sense - but you can't do it forever.

People complained when Windows XP/2000 "broke" certain applications and games, but they've gotten over it, and I'd say the benefits gained (ie producing the most stable release of windows yet) certainly outweights the downsides.

# February 17, 2004 4:26 PM

Shaun Wilson said:

what scare me is how companies abroad left windows 2000 sitting in the cold for over a year with support persons claiming "it's a business class operating system".

As long as similar claims could not be made against upcoming windows releases I'm all for breaking compatibility with technology from the late 80s and early 90s, however if it meant compat. mode would be lost, I would have to disagree (and thunks should remain in the system, if only for compat. mode options which I have used and continue to use on win2k3).
# July 27, 2004 6:43 AM