Shamil Salakhetdinov
shamil at users.mns.ru
Thu Mar 17 01:19:53 CST 2005
FYI: Microsft May Be Hitting a Complaince Wall Here Undoubtedly the reason VB.NET is so unlike VB6 is that a no-going-back incompatibility is essential to the .NET strategy, for it is a strategy having no compelling reason to exist except to compel a forced march to rentalware. http://news.com.com/5208-1007-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=5447&messageID=33487&start=-191 Microsoft walks VB tight rope Facing protests from legions of Visual Basic developers, Microsoft is not backing down. But it is taking steps to keep them on friendly terms. http://news.com.com/2100-1007-5620821.html?tag=yt "In short, by using VB6, you conciously subscribed to the Microsoft business plan that obsolteted it. Microsoft never led you to believe they wouldn't change things around on you or force you to port your code. Historically, this has happened many times before and there's financial incentives to do it. The developer is wrong to whine, and Microsoft's right to ignore them. " Shamil -- Web: http://smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s <<< tail skipped >>>