Comment Re:This is happening right now with XP (Score 1) 216
I should have been more specific - allow me to rephrase.
Microsoft has been playing games with versions and their OS since DOS 5 and the setver days.
Admittedly, their motivations were different then - at least for setver.
I would perhaps have been more accurate to push actual evil intent out to DOS 6. Remember the DR DOS shenanigans? Wikipedia does...
"Though DR-DOS was almost 100% binary compatible with applications written for MS-DOS, Microsoft nevertheless expended considerable effort in attempts to break compatibility. In one example, they inserted code into the beta version of Windows 3.1 to return a non-fatal error message if it detected a non-Microsoft DOS. With the detection code disabled (or if the user canceled the error message), Windows ran perfectly under DR-DOS." - Wikipedia article on DR-DOS
I was doing tech support for Quarterdeck in those days. MS played games in some versions with QEMM as well. It was fairly annoying.
Point being - MS has a history of changing code to break compatability, for no real reason than to push their own products. It is unsurprising that they've continued this with Vista.
Microsoft has been playing games with versions and their OS since DOS 5 and the setver days.
Admittedly, their motivations were different then - at least for setver.
I would perhaps have been more accurate to push actual evil intent out to DOS 6. Remember the DR DOS shenanigans? Wikipedia does...
"Though DR-DOS was almost 100% binary compatible with applications written for MS-DOS, Microsoft nevertheless expended considerable effort in attempts to break compatibility. In one example, they inserted code into the beta version of Windows 3.1 to return a non-fatal error message if it detected a non-Microsoft DOS. With the detection code disabled (or if the user canceled the error message), Windows ran perfectly under DR-DOS." - Wikipedia article on DR-DOS
I was doing tech support for Quarterdeck in those days. MS played games in some versions with QEMM as well. It was fairly annoying.
Point being - MS has a history of changing code to break compatability, for no real reason than to push their own products. It is unsurprising that they've continued this with Vista.
