"Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
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> Orchid XP v7 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/10/27 05:55:
> > Darren New wrote:
> >> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> >>> Because almost no software will run on it any more.
> >>> Seriously. I'd still be using WinNT if it wasn't for that.
> >>
> >> Now consider why it might be that new software doesn't run on old
> >> OSes, even tho the old software runs on the new OSes.  Maybe it's
> >> because the new OSes provide more services and functionality that the
> >> programmers like to take advantage of to make their lives easier?
> >
> > More likely M$ rearranged some API to induce an artificial dependency,
> > but anyway...

> No API rearrengement at all, NEW APIs! Some older APIs where also
upgraded, but
> they are still called the same way as before and return the same thing.

And some of those new APIs are quicker and easier to use. Hence the lazy
programmers (*) who develop apps for windows will use those over the older
APIs. Hence stuff works on XP that won't work on 98

(*) It has been said that laziness is a desirable trait in programmers. I'm
not making a judgement on everyone who develops

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