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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2005-07-06
I'm not arguing that the cost/benefit of this feature does not justify having it in there. What I'm saying is that from a software engineering point of view, it's a horrible hack (no matter how its implemented!) and admiring it is really twisted. It's an "ends do not justify the means" argument here.