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Re: About .NET

• Posted by Philip Deets <philip1987 at hotmail.com> Aug 03, 2004
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David wrote:
> 
> Jeff Houck wrote:
> 
> > Microsoft never worried that much about backwards compatibility before so
> > why start now?
> 
> Actually, Microsoft put a huge amount of work into backward compatability. 
> However, there's much more willingness with the latest releases of Windows to 
> break compatibility for the sake of "better" technology than there was in the 
> past. Witness VB and ASP being .NETified, and breaking backward 
> compatibility.
> 

Correct.  And even then when they .NETified it (I like that word), they
made it be at least close to backward compatible.  You had to change
little.

Phil