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But Windows IS the intextricable tie

It was argued that "But they are doing their age old proprietary lock-in scheme at a time when the industry is no longer inextricably tied to them and is no longer beholden to them."

I wish that were true. But almost all end user PCs that actually do anything use use Windows--mostly Windows 98 and earlier in many cases of average business and home use.

And .NET is starting to leave this huge base of PCs behind. For example, there are new utility upgrades from firms that have always been MS-cozy that now require .NET amd which do not run under Windows 98. When you buy the new version both the new version and a copy of the old version are provided, because from now on it's evidently XP only. So Windows 98 users get long horned sooner rather than later.

How can you not be forced into Longhorn under such circumstances? Don't be so naive.

I am sure it does not HAVE to be that way but I would suspect that the .NET developer tools aren't being built to compile with ease to Windows 98 in the way they surely complie with ease to XP.

MS did this with Windows 95 by simply dropping routine updates to installable components that developers ship with applications, such as certain database functionality, Direct-X etc.
Many of tehse components that go with one's app aren't installable in Windows 95 now and have not been for quite a while.

The same will soon happen re WIndows 98 I am sure.

We are completely tied to Windows and when MS says jump, as in sorry no more software for Windows 98, we shall all jump as ordered.

Posted by: KeithRisler   Posted on: 11/20/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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