At 07:34 PM 5/14/00 +0200, you wrote:
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>How do you expect them to pull this off? All (or at least most) old
>application must still run otherwise people won't upgrade, and
>application makers aren't likely to abandon their customers by
>mandating them to install the new OS.
Of course old apps will still work, but Ms has a excellent bludgeon to
force developpers to upgrade and support new features, the 'win-xx
compatible logo'. If Unicode is part of the logo, new apps will
support Unicode. And applications makers will sell old versions
of their applications for old versions of the Os. New features will
work under the new Os. This pattern has already happened for
Win16.
If Wine don't support new applications, it don't matter if it's called
alpha, 1.0 or 9.34; it may be interesting for users, but not for business
and developpers. And just another company like Corel could be
much more interesting for the project than 5000000 end-users.
Gerard
