Friday, April 4, 2008

How Microsoft Plan To Get Its Groove Back With Win7

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 04, @11:02AM
from the you-have-no-compatibility-get-over-it dept.
shawnz tips a blog post up at thebetaguy that details Windows 7's huge departure from the past, and the bold strategy Microsoft will be employing to maintain backward compatibility. Hint: Apple did it seven years back. There are interesting anti-trust implications too. "Windows 7 takes a different approach to the componentization and backwards compatibility issues; in short, it doesn't think about them at all. Windows 7 will be a from-the-ground-up packaging of the Windows codebase; partially source, but not binary compatible with previous versions of Windows."

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