Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On 03/09/2012 11:40 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>
> On Windows though, even if you relied on bugs twenty
> years ago, they bend over backward to keep your app
> functioning.

They stopped doing that a long time ago. There's a well-known blog 
article about this:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

Some apps and hardware had trouble running on XP, and Vista took this to 
all new levels -- one of the reasons it got so much bad press.