Les apps qui tournent toujours sous Vista depuis Win9x sont probablement plus nombreuses que celles qui ne tournent plus, si on ne compte pas une catégorie évidente que sont les outils systèmes (antivirus et autres trucs liés complètement à une version de l'OS).
Voici les extrêmes où vont les dev de MS pour supporter des app populaires qui ont des bugs particuliers :
http://ianmurdock.com/platforms/on-the-importance-of-backward-compatibility/
> I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would not work under Windows where memory that is freed is likely to be snatched up by another running application right away. The testers on the Windows team were going through various popular applications, testing them to make sure they worked OK, but SimCity kept crashing. They reported this to the Windows developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it did, ran the memory allocator in a special mode in which you could still use memory after freeing it.
Le commentaire de Ian Murdock, le ian dans Debian :
> I can almost feel the revulsion among my readership right about now. However, next time you’re in Best Buy or CompUSA, look at the shelf of Windows applications, then compare it to the shelf of Mac applications, and perhaps you’ll better understand why it’s important.
[^] # Re: Problèmes?
Posté par 両儀式 . En réponse au journal Linux a des défauts sur le bureau. Évalué à 8.
Tu n'as aucune idée de la quantité de travail déployé par MS pour que les anciennes apps continuent de tourner.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/
http://www.amazon.com/Old-New-Thing-Development-Throughout/dp/0321440307/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343382915&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Old+New+THing
Les apps qui tournent toujours sous Vista depuis Win9x sont probablement plus nombreuses que celles qui ne tournent plus, si on ne compte pas une catégorie évidente que sont les outils systèmes (antivirus et autres trucs liés complètement à une version de l'OS).
Voici les extrêmes où vont les dev de MS pour supporter des app populaires qui ont des bugs particuliers :
http://ianmurdock.com/platforms/on-the-importance-of-backward-compatibility/
> I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would not work under Windows where memory that is freed is likely to be snatched up by another running application right away. The testers on the Windows team were going through various popular applications, testing them to make sure they worked OK, but SimCity kept crashing. They reported this to the Windows developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it did, ran the memory allocator in a special mode in which you could still use memory after freeing it.
Le commentaire de Ian Murdock, le ian dans Debian :
> I can almost feel the revulsion among my readership right about now. However, next time you’re in Best Buy or CompUSA, look at the shelf of Windows applications, then compare it to the shelf of Mac applications, and perhaps you’ll better understand why it’s important.