On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, at 09:16 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > For Microsoft, I suspect they could not find a situation among their > very large clients where killing the 16-bit environment introduced too > great a hardship. For us little guys that might have a Delphi or a > Paradox or a DOS BASIC app we depended on, well, we were on our own. > Workarounds can be found, and our pain is not MS'
Exactly this. It is not the same as IBM mainframes having backward compatibility, because IBM get a stack of money from the banks and airlines that run the legacy systems to keep that going. Microsoft get zip on an ongoing basis from some guy still wanting to run WordPerfect 5.1 or some ancient MS-DOS video store rental manager application, and the number of corporates with this requirement is either now tiny or can be handled with virtualisation. Are there many Linux or Apple applications of the same age that still run on those platforms? No. It is a simple cost\benefit situation for Microsoft, and as has been pointed out, 32-bit Windows 10 will almost certainly still run all this stuff anyway. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1434538213.3039534.297853777.1d387...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
