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Microsoft is loosing Backwards Compatibility Religion

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Post by alexu » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 11:35 PM UTC

Microsoft is loosing Backwards Compatibility Religion, breaks printing in Windows 2008. Company admits breaking printing and refuses to fix it.

Re: Microsoft is loosing Backwards Compatibility Religion

Post by sjs » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 11:49 PM UTC

$50,000 to get somebody at MS to even look at a regression?

For $50,000 you could fix basically any bug or add a significant feature to an open source system.

Post by samjones3 » Mon, Jan 03, 2011, 10:26 PM UTC

Where is Ray Chen when you need him? (The oldnewthing guy)