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How Windows Everywhere finally happened

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Re: How Windows Everywhere finally happened

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Post by fleitz »

pjmlp wrote: post #134
fleitz wrote: post #132

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ObjC is dead when swift no longer spends most of its time calling in to ObjC for the typical iOS/OSX app.

In case you didn't got the memo, GDC and XTest are being re-written in Swift, it will eventually happen to other frameworks when it makes business sense to do so. Let's see what else gets announced at WWDC 2016 and how many talks do show Objective-C code.

GDC is C code... I'm talking UIKit.

Totally agree that on the WWDC they announce that UIKit is written in swift then it's officially dead.

Re: How Windows Everywhere finally happened

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Post by scholia »

cpeterso wrote: post #140
Grishnakh wrote: post #139

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What's really weird is that these same large organizations didn't have that much trouble migrating computing platforms in the past: MS-DOS, Win3.x, Win95, Win98, Win2000, etc. Then they got to XP and suddenly they were stuck.

They probably saw diminish returns upgrading from XP to Windows 7, whereas the past upgrades you list add a lot of new functionality and applications. Windows was pretty much "feature complete" with XP.

Delaying the move to Windows 7 cost them vast amounts of money due to more frequent crashes and reboots, less efficient operations, greater susceptibility to malware, and generally higher support costs etc.

It didn't save them any money because they were almost always paying for Windows 7 even while they were using XP. (Either they paid for Windows 7 and used the downgrade option or paid for it via Software Assurance.)

They didn't save the cost of moving to Windows 7, they just deferred it to a later date when the move was more expensive.

Microsoft tried to help them to move by giving them a free copy of Windows XP in the form of Windows 7 XP Mode. That wasn't available in Windows 8/8.1/10.

So, as far as I can see, sticking with XP was a really dumb move. I'm sure there would be special cases connected with software that couldn't be upgraded and/or expensive peripherals, but still, in the bast majority of cases, they could have done a Windows 7 upgrade leaving just a few instances of XP.

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