New APIs.

Post #369,626 by static 1/12/13 4:05:37 AM Reply	New APIs. Microsoft tried moving everyone to a brand new API. It was called OS/2. Faced with cool developer responses, they chose to enhance the existing Windows API instead and the rest is history. The kind of history they really don't want to repeat. Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #369,633 by crazy 1/12/13 8:20:56 AM Reply	Yeah right Simplify years of corporate political fighting to that statement. "Programmer's didn't want to code to it so we gave them what they wanted." You remember those days? I do.
Post #369,669 by static 1/12/13 5:20:06 PM Reply	I simplified it a bit. :-) Okay, a lot. At the time, MS believed it's own propaganda that developers didn't want to shift to an entirely new API. That I do remember. Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #369,729 by crazy 1/14/13 5:54:22 AM Reply	Yeah, but you repeated the propaganda That's ok, those days are over.
Post #369,634 by Another Scott 1/12/13 8:29:21 AM Reply	Yes and no. I get your point, but Win32 was different from Win16 too. There were lots of reasons why MS Windows won and MS/IBM OS/2 lost on the desktop: The price of developers tools; the preloaded mass-market vs. the expensive corporate market; drivers; MS's desire to screw IBM and take it all; differences in the desktop location of 0,0 (top left vs bottom left) on the screen, etc.; ISVs not seeing a reason to port to OS/2 2.0 except via the "Mirrors" translation DLL; slow hardware of the time; etc. These were all solvable problems, given time and a desire. After all, it took MS over a decade to fully transition the market from 16-bit to 32-bit Windows. Apple has been changing OS X under the hood (Carbon to Cocoa, 32-bit to 64-bit, dropping the PowerPC code, adding iOS stuff, etc.) and they're bringing their developers along. They showed that you can do it right - you can transition between processor generations, improve the OS, and keep your customers reasonably happy, and have a thriving market in the process. (Of course, they also have no qualms about squashing developers in the process, but that's a different issue.) My $0.02. Cheers, scott.

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