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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Microsoft makes the naive assumption that developers will code their apps properly, but that doesn't occur as often as it should.

Developers DON'T code their apps properly and/or quickly, and that in itself is the problem! Look what happened with Vista: Microsoft took slings and arrows for years for their unsecure OS's, so they make a really secure OS (Vista, specifically Vista's UAC, where no user has full admin rights all the time). Developer's have to code differently to account for UAC / lack of admin rights. What did the developers do? They simply stated their app wasn't Vista compatible! I can't tell you, as a Microsoft Small Business Specialist, how many Line of Business applications STILL aren't Vista compatible to this day, 3.5 years after Vista's launch!

The result? Microsoft appears to the public like they made an incompatible dog of an OS, even though Microsoft was trying to answer security criticisms....a case of dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.


Personally, even though I LOVE the idea of eliminated shared DLL's, I don't blame Microsoft for being hesitant to make such a dramatic OS change after what developers did (or more importantly didn't do) after the release of Vista.