On 03/09/2012 11:40 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Windows though, even if you relied on bugs twenty years ago, they bend over backward to keep your app functioning.
They stopped doing that a long time ago. There's a well-known blog article about this:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.htmlSome apps and hardware had trouble running on XP, and Vista took this to all new levels -- one of the reasons it got so much bad press.
