26 Sep
2011
26 Sep
'11
5:37 p.m.
> The thing that has always bugged me about .NET is
that MS billed it as
> cross-platform, then turned right around and made crucial libraries
> Windows-only.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
It's cross-platform, programs run under Windows
on ANY PC! ;)
When NT 4.x came out, MS marketing droids made a big deal out if being 99
44/100% portable C code, and how they were going to port it to EVERY
computer. (even the impossible ones)
Later, they changed their strategy more towards trying to achieve the same
result by trying to eliminate the existence of anything that Windoze
wouldn't run on.