GDI Advance but goes backward :-(

Drew replied to my question on the future for GDI:

You mean besides Avalon? I haven't heard about any advances in the GDI APIs. Everything is moving towards Avalon and vector graphics. It was explicitly pointed out that there are two graphics stacks in Longhorn. GDI for legacy apps and Avalon for Longhorn+ apps. As I understand it, so far, is the support for GDI is now essentially a thunking layer to Avalon. Legacy windows apps seem to run just fine (they showed Visicalc), but they look like complete strangers in the rich Avalon world.

Well I think it's sad news. Microsoft pushed the developers to adopt GDI+ as the new platform for the next few years.
Now everything will change again in 2-3 years ?

So what is the point to continue working with GDI+? And why not pushing more Avalon or whatever you would like to call it before ?

Apple had already managed the transition to vector graphics.

Since years it's always the same story: MS launch something new or evolve on a existing technology to again quickly destroy it :-((

Can they think sometime about the real world !

 

5 Comments

  • Everything will always change and invalidate what was made before it, this is IT. This is all still 2-3 years away though, so it does not change anything right now.



    -James

  • James ok for the basics, but cna't we have a better global view on the future technologies, something like a 10 years plan ?



    Because if I follow this rule .NEt can be a thing of the past in 5-6 years.



    I like progress, no doubt about this, but I like also smart moves, not only marketing stuff.

  • Just to complete my last reply, I would say that I have the feeling that all the stuff shown actually at the PDC will certainly have the negative aspect to freeze the creativity on the current products(.Net, XP, etc...)

    After all some companies will prefer to wait and see (as usual) what's going to happen next.

    With a longer view, you can make better software, keep a high level standard in Research and Development, and eventually the hardware can still progress faster than the software.


  • .Net is here today. GDI+ is here today. I can be more productive today. Even if .NET is a thing of the past in 5 - 6 years, that 5 - 6 years of great productivity!!!

  • Kartal I respect your opinion but I don't think that software companies will share the same when you talk about long term investment !

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