Microsoft's version of usefulness
MS' idea of usefulness looks a lot like Sun's ideas - throw a bunch of new API's at the developer community:
But, there are more new APIs being shipped with Longhorn than we've shipped in a long time with Windows. One reason we're gonna show you Longhorn so darn early (the PDC will be about two years before Longhorn will ship) is to give developers time to learn all about it. It will take that long to really get a handle on it. I've been reading all the top secret documents inside Microsoft and it's taken me months to just wrap my brain around what is going on. And I'm not trying to learn all the APIs.
Ok, explain to me how this is a good thing? Why do I want and explosion of new API's? Are they going to be covering actual honest to goodness new ideas, or just new wrappers around stuff we already know how to do - in other words, an unfunded mandate on top of developers?
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Re: Microsoft's version of usefulness
[Mark Derricutt] August 3, 2003 2:06:48.636
Comment on Microsoft's version of usefulness by Mark Derricutt
Sounds the announcement "beware - an explosion of new bugs and security patches will follow."