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To: stockman_scott who wrote (175482)	3/27/2006 2:03:57 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

"Microsoft feels it can't get away with breaking compatibility," said Mendel Rosenblum, a Stanford University computer scientist. "All of their applications must continue to run, and from an architectural point of view that's a very painful thing." For several years Microsoft tolerated, and even encouraged their application writers to use secret and undocumented parts of the operating system to make Microsoft applications run faster than applications which used the published interfaces. Many of these ties to the operating system were little more than unpatched bugs. This is the legacy that they now have to preserve. TP