Dev Corvin from the beta guy claims to have an exclusive on Windows 7:
In Windows 7, Microsoft will break from the Windows’ norm by breaking previous API compatibility, offering new API frameworks as a native solution, and providing support for legacy frameworks (COM, ATL, .NET Framework, etc) through monolithic libraries designed to provide the functionality of all previous revisions of the modules in question.
If this is true Microsoft would be taking another play from Apple’s playbook(Remember Mac OS 9 to X transition and emulation?).
So just to summarize recent Redmond photocopies:
-Microsoft buys Bungie to get exclusive Mac game: Halo
-Zune copies iPod model after their Play For Sure fails
-Vista copies Tiger’s feature(Dashboard, Spotlight, Expose, Aqua, etc)
-Windows legacy emulation in Windows 7 just like the Mac.
-There is probably more but I suck for memory stuff
P.S. I don’t care who this Corvin guy is, (found him on Techmeme). I was just looking for an excuse to trash talk at Microsoft after Friday’s letter. What pisses me off the most is that the letter was sent on Friday afternoon, in order to hurt Yahoo’s stock on Monday heavily as a form of punishment. That just being assholes.
To Microsoft: Don’t mess with the Valley cause they’ll get you!
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