Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dragonfly who wrote (1545)	4/16/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

For instance, the networking is done in such a way that when applications written with the assumption that Appletalk was there were run under the new TCP/IP based networking, they did not have to be re-compiled or re-written. IT just worked. On the Windows side, we've had to make many changes to our applications because of changes to the underlying technology that Microsoft decide to reflect in completely new APIs. Whenever something changes on Windows, MSFT creates a new set of APIS. OIn the Macintosh, more often than not, the APIS are written in such a way that the lower level stuff can and does change without having to modify the program (or recompile.) I'm surprised you're not familier with this. I would hardly call replacing the network transport "taking advantage of advanced system features". Windows apps can do the same thing (if the are written correctly). Going back to the original post, the article was saying all these apps had to be re-written to take advantage of new features. This is misleading - current apps will run fine, but to take advantage of new capabilities of things like Active Directory and COM+, apps would have to be rewritten. Maybe we're just talking about different things.