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Joel On Microsoft's API Mistakes

Posted by timothy on from the microsoft-is-a-big-software-company dept.

AceMarkE writes "Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software has posted an article entitled "How Microsoft Lost the API War". He covers why the Win32 API is important to Microsoft, what they've done to keep it working, why Microsoft's switch to the .Net platform is both a good and bad idea, and why he feels the browser will be the real future of application development. Definitely worth a read no matter what your opinion of Microsoft is."

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  1. Re:Increased Irrelevancy, however. by Big+Jason · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IBM == I've Been Masturbated

  2. Solaris desktop better than linux????? by mountain_penguin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I take it you don't use solaris. I do it sucks big time packages break in odd ways compiling things from source is a pain and suns version of desktops such as gnome are way way behind the curve forcing us to use blastwaves packages which have there own oddness (mime types don't work in nautilus!)
    Man I wash sunray server software would work on linux and then we could have up to date less buggy desktop it would be fantastic