The Importance of OS Backwards Compatibility 380
gbjbaanb writes "Raymond Chen (of ancient Microsoft heritage) has a blog where he describes some of the things he's worked on, as well as oddments of obscure code and design decisions in Windows. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Windows, it is informative and often thought-provoking. Recently, Raymond posted an entry about backwards compatibility, and why it is such a big deal for large corporations. Something that I have read about on Slashdot regularly (where Windows is criticized for bothering with it at all), I thought readers would be interested in exactly why Microsoft spends so much effort on backwards compatibility, and by inference, why it is an important topic for getting Linux adopted by big business."
Compatibility freak? (Score:2, Funny)
Retro chic
Tweak the hardware
Old-school sleek
Burma Shave
Re:Windows Backward Compat? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Windows Backward Compat? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Omelette? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:billions at stake (Score:3, Funny)
Please tell me you meant gorilla?
Re:Windows Backward Compat? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Blog's interesting;submission gave me a WTF mom (Score:2, Funny)
Re:With open source the same problem exists (Score:5, Funny)
Nonsense. Just use Debian.
Re:Omelette? (Score:3, Funny)