I haven't used Windows more than occasionally for a decade, and I still read Chen religiously; he's very entertaining.
> It's really too bad Microsoft doesn't seem to value backwards compatibility as much as they did during the times Chen often writes about.
This, I'd disagree on. At a certain point, one either has to move on, or to spend 90% of the time working on backward compatibility.
> on the other that their driver from 2001 doesn't work right in Windows 7
Drivers were never really part of the backward compatibility obsession. They changed utterly between 9x and NT, of course, and also fairly dramatically DOS/Win3.x and 9x, between NT4 and 2000, and between XP and Vista.
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I haven't used Windows more than occasionally for a decade, and I still read Chen religiously; he's very entertaining.
> It's really too bad Microsoft doesn't seem to value backwards compatibility as much as they did during the times Chen often writes about.
This, I'd disagree on. At a certain point, one either has to move on, or to spend 90% of the time working on backward compatibility.
> on the other that their driver from 2001 doesn't work right in Windows 7
Drivers were never really part of the backward compatibility obsession. They changed utterly between 9x and NT, of course, and also fairly dramatically DOS/Win3.x and 9x, between NT4 and 2000, and between XP and Vista.