Raymond Chen Blog’s new exciting article

Raymond Chen’s blog has another exciting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H boring elitarian article on how poor Microsoft is forced on bad choices because of third party software using undocumented functions/resources.

Fact is, Windows has the crappiest versioning convention ever (that is : none). Fact is Microsoft software is free to use undocumented stuff and has not licensing issues (for example for copying resources). Fact is Microsoft software has of course priviledge of compatibility testing and hacks.

Really you can write so many articles on how third party applications break on Operative System modifications before you become insulting to third party developers who have to use any available resource to compensate for the lack good APIs in the OS.

I won’t even go to mention how .net windows forms lack any kind of user controls from the last 10 years. The most advanced controls in .net framework are the common controls of windows 95. There isn’t even support for icons on menus. I will come back to Raymond’s block in 2009, when he will complain in his blog (which will be titled “not actually a win64 blog”) about how fucktard were those applications which did whatever to have icons on menus or tab pages of the right color under xp themes. Someone will mention how bugged was Application.EnableVisualStyles() at he will digress on why even EnableVisualStyles was written that (bugged) way to keep compatibility with god-knows-what.

And if System.Windows.Forms has this problems, I don’t even want to check out MFC.

BTW I removed Raymond’s blog from the list of links, because it conflicted with some important third party software I’m not going to mention for legal issues.

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Edit : the reason I removed RC link is not because I don’t link a blog anymore when it posts a message I don’t like. Almost all the links in my page have posts I don’t like but they are still there. The fact is I don’t want to be associated with such elitism and Only-Microsoft-Does-It-Right (when most proofs are for the opposite!) zealotry.

October 26, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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2 Responses to “Raymond Chen Blog’s new exciting article”

  1. Luca on December 22nd, 2005 5:04 pm

    MICROSOFT DOES IT RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. Mfc Programming on October 2nd, 2006 6:40 pm

    Dave

    Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future

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