Howard Winter wrote:

> No, it's the way Microsoft goes!  Backward compatibility used to be a big
> thing in computing, but M$ discovered that it means that people can just
> stay with what they have, rather than upgrading every couple of years,
> which reduces M$'s profits.  

Are you sure that a compiled binary from ten years ago for any OS that is
not stuck in time would run on a current version? Of course, if you take
OS/2, the programs still run, but then, if you take Win98, they also still
run. 

I'm not sure, but there are probably more MS-DOS programs that run on WinXP
than there are MS-DOS programs that run on OS/2, no? :)

Gerhard

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