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Re: Rob Kenny - Application Compatibility

moofish — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:56:24 GMT

Please do tell what 600 applications looks like in the start menu.

posted by moofish

Re: Rob Kenny - Application Compatibility

DevilsRejection — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:03:08 GMT

Man I want to see how LUA will make or break Vista.

This whole concept of the registry... it's ancient, why are we still using it?

posted by DevilsRejection

Re: Rob Kenny - Application Compatibility

ejohnson8 — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:08:41 GMT

Some great suggestions about how to write a future OS compatiable app. Since there are no books that address this topic, someone should publish an whitepaper to MSDN.

posted by ejohnson8

Re: Rob Kenny - Application Compatibility

LarryOsterman — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:48:54 GMT

DevilsRejection wrote:

Man I want to see how LUA will make or break Vista.

This whole concept of the registry... it's ancient, why are we still using it?

Why is it "ancient"? It has its issues (it's not fully transacted (it's transacted at the level of individual operations, but not across multiple operations), it doesn't do a good job of storing large data structures, it's got a relatively weak notification story), but it's a perfectly fine data store.

And it's WAY better than random text .config files or any of the alternatives.

posted by LarryOsterman

Re: Rob Kenny - Application Compatibility

rev23dev — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:46:59 GMT

sounds great, but so many companies, including ones that were just mentioned in here, i.e. photoshop, put in checks for operating system and simply won't let you install/run if it doesn't test right... so... tell them to stop doing stuff like that

posted by rev23dev

Re: Rob Kenny - Application Compatibility

efortier — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:40:11 GMT

I've watched a lot of videos from channel 9 and always download the new stuff; I really enjoy the fact that microsoft is working hard to show us what goes on behind the scenes and how they work on their products.

I don't want to undermine the hard work of people involved in making those videos, but the constant giggling and out-of-nowhere laughter of one of the interviewer is incredibly annoying.

It's especially bad when the laughter covers part of the answers of the people in videos.

Lastly, please, when you ask a question of your guests let them answer and don't cut their answer in the middle. An interview with Jim Allchin comes to mind where the interviewer asked a question and in the middle of the answer he said something and we never got to know the full answer to the original question.

--Eric

posted by efortier

Re: Rob Kenny - Application Compatibility

scobleizer — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:03:20 GMT

efortier wrote:

I've watched a lot of videos from channel 9 and always download the new stuff; I really enjoy the fact that microsoft is working hard to show us what goes on behind the scenes and how they work on their products.

I don't want to undermine the hard work of people involved in making those videos, but the constant giggling and out-of-nowhere laughter of one of the interviewer is incredibly annoying.

It's especially bad when the laughter covers part of the answers of the people in videos.

Lastly, please, when you ask a question of your guests let them answer and don't cut their answer in the middle. An interview with Jim Allchin comes to mind where the interviewer asked a question and in the middle of the answer he said something and we never got to know the full answer to the original question.

--Eric

Eric, that interviewer is me. I'll try to do better.

posted by scobleizer