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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2007-08-22
It doesn't have to (as the mono guys have proven). "
True, but that's basically what it does on Windows. It's doesn't call down to the NT Kernel API for everything - it uses Win32 where it can. Thus it won't work for what I said. And, not everyone is or will ever use .NET for everything. C/C++ and other languages will be needed for applications that will work outside the .NET framework, so they still need another API in addition to .NET even if they ported .NET to using just the NT kernel API.