Microsoft to End DLL Confusion

MankyD writes "ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft is attempting to do away with DLL version conflicts in its next version of Windows with a technology it calls 'Strong Binding'. When new programs attempt to overwrite old versions of DLL's, the Strong Binding will index the DLL's and allow the programs to reference them by a unique ID, rather than by file name. Hopefully it will prevent a new program from breaking an old one. I would think this might add to DLL clutter however."

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[somethingwicked]

It's funny reading through the different replies to this story-

Reply 1- "This is a horrible idea! Look at all the RAM/disk space this is going to use. M$ programmers are idiots!"

Reply 2- "VMS/Apple/*enter slanted fav OS here* already does this! This was a good idea when it was done 10 years ago by ____ .

Reply 3- An idea like this is so stupid, it will NEVER work right.

So, its a stupid idea that will never work EXCEPT it has already been done BUT will take up too many resources UNLESS it is done by our fav OS AND then thats okay

*grin*