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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (63911)	12/27/2001 11:45:01 AM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

But unfortunately, the market for Windows applications still assumes full binary compatibility and therefore Microsoft is forced to maintain that, also in Windows XP. It's not as bad as all that for poor Microsoft. They only have to maintain compatibility with those apps that are strategically desirable to them. You didn't see them putting extra engineers on keeping the Internet Explorer in the latest Windows compatible with the QuickTime plugin, for example. In fact, you didn't even see them asking a marketing drone to place a single telephone call in to Apple to alert them that they were dropping Netscape plugin support in IE XP. Undesirable third-party software, like QuickTime (and Java and Dr DOS etc. etc.), is routinely broken by new versions of Microsoft software. This is commonly called Anticompatibility Engineering by outside observers. Dave