RE: [Dev-C++] Some Longhorn programming info

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Per Westermark [mailto:pw...@ia...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:33 PM
> To: staale
> Cc: Ioannis Vranos; Dev-C++ Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Some Longhorn programming info
> 
> 
> Unless Microsoft will invalidate ALL existing windows applications -
> that's the applications that makes us stay with Windows, 
> instead of using
> Linux, OS-X etc - they obviously must continue to support the 
> Win32 API,
> in the same way that current Win32 platworms kept the support for old
> Win16 applications.
> 
> Since I'm such a M$ lover, my hope is of course that they are stupid
> enough to remove Win32 support and let Linux rule :-)


Well till 2004+, all will have moved to .NET. I do not what will happen
will legacy code, but probably it will be lost. But I DO NOT KNOW. I am
telling what i have read so far (and few things are available regarding
Longhorn so far).


Ioannis Vranos
 
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