Comments on Meineck.Net: Cutting your Losses

Neil Robbins — spot-on! Cut & run; there ain&#...

2009-04-24T07:13:00.000+01:00

Neil Robbins — spot-on! Cut & run; there ain't no point in flogging a dead donkey. Or even; 2 dead donkies!

I can think of a legacy codebase that needs to cut...

2008-06-09T11:32:00.000+01:00

I can think of a legacy codebase that needs to cut it's losses and be radically overhauled.

Can you guess the product Dan? :)

The issue of how long to support an API is complex...

2008-04-27T20:49:00.000+01:00

The issue of how long to support an API is complex. If you had spent years developing a codebase for a really big application you would not react kindly to the rug being pulled from under you, even less if you had paid millions for such a system. I believe that End Users should expect their systems to run for at least 10 years and so API and O/S vendors should support for 15 to 20 years.
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From what I understand Dan, Microsoft are kind of ...

2008-04-22T07:40:00.000+01:00

From what I understand Dan, Microsoft are kind of doing this in Windows 7. At least, to some degree. They're working on a new Kernel (google for MinWin) which will be much more streamlined.

I can't say what they'll be doing for APIs, but I'm pretty sure the UI side of things was updated heavily with vista and will no doubt be updated again with Seven.

I guess Microsofts user