Le 10/03/2012 20:37, Walter Bright a écrit :
On 3/10/2012 10:58 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Win9x's success is mainly attributable to Microsoft's superior marketing
strategies. It can hardly be called a success technology-wise.
Oh, I disagree with that. Certainly, Win9x was a compromise, but it
nailed being a transition operating system from 16 to 32 bit, and it
nailed making Windows an attractive target for game developers.
Windows 3.1 had patches provided by microsoft to handle 32bits. But this
is quite offtopic. Win9x was good back then. Now it is crap.
When doing something new (like D) you don't only need to provide
something as good as what existed before. Actually, providing better
isn't enough either. You need to provide enough to compensate the cost
of the change, and additionally communication/marketing must convince
user to switch.
