Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th May 2007 15:07 UTC, submitted by PlatformAgnostic
Alex Ionescu, one of the lead developers behind the ReactOS project, has published a detailed article on the XP/Vista application compatibility system. "For the last few days, I've been intimately becoming aquainted with a piece of technology in Windows XP and Vista that rarely gets the attention it deserves. It has raised my esteem and admiration towards Microsoft ten fold, and I feel it would be wise to share it, publicize it, and then of course, find (positive) ways to exploit it to turn it into a powerful backend for various purposes."
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2007-02-22
I'm very impressed by the scope and level of detail put into Shim, as well as Microsoft's commitment to provide backwards compatibility to even the most poorly written and esoteric of applications.
That being said, however, I'm more unimpressed that they had to implement something like this. Ford Prefect explained it better than I can.