From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-07 10:24:05 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9d6dmc$24v$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9d6i89$3nf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: OT: Microsoft Follies (was: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:23:41 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 17:23:41 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7275 Date: 2001-05-07T17:23:41+00:00 List-Id: In article <9d6i89$3nf$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... >While there are potential problems with Open Source Software (divergence, I had to laugh when they raised that issue. How many different "Windows" OS's does Microsoft have floating around now? At least 4, no matter how you count. Just about any serious Windows app has to have some code somewhere that detects the Windows version and does completely different things depending on which one it is. One good example is trying to get see if a certain program is running. There's an API for it in 9x. With NT you have to do a series of convoulted real-time registry lookups (which won't work on 9x). --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com