Linked by Adam S on Sun 29th Jun 2008 16:10 UTC
"Microsoft Windows has put on a lot of weight over the years" writs Randall Stross in a recent New York Times blog entry on Windows' legacy code. "Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code," he continues, "it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked properly, all while maintaining compatibility with older software and hardware -- is there anything Windows doesn't try to do?" Does Microsoft have the business savvy or guts to rewrite Windows?
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WINE can emulate things Vista cant play, and it has nothing to do with backwards compatibility.
For that matter, 8080 code still runs on a brand new quad core.
This jihad to blame WOW(WOW16/WOW64) or backwards compatibility is subterfuge for horrible feature creep and horrible design. The NT kernel is the most understood, tested and architected kernel in the world, surround by heaps of cruft, .NET, a "bad java," and a ton of win32 bad crud. I'd like to see one day a "gentoo" or "debian" for NT kernel, you might be surprised if you built a sane userland around the NT kernel it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Blaming Windows 3.1/win32s/Windows 95 compatibility for the sorry state of affairs in Vista is complete folderol.
Im just going to bark back to stuff like this, WINE plays more games than Vsita SP1 and looks good doing so.