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Less than two weeks after drawing controversy over his appointment as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, Brendan Eich has resigned from the position. "Life has its little ups and downs like ponies on a merry go round, and no one grabs a brass ring every time"
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One of the major factors that is preventing older enterprises from leaving Windows XP is the prevalence of mission critical applications written in Visual Basic 6. Is it the cause, or the effect?
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I can't see why? We have an older bug tracking system, written in VB6, and it's running perfectly even on Windows 8...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Quote: if it relies on obscure COM or control libraries
I'd be guessing that is a fairly low (but measurable) number of VB6 apps. I'd put a guess that anything using hooking might be an issue. Maybe stuff using security APIs as well.
Oh Spyworks, I miss you.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: anything using hooking might be an issue. Maybe stuff using security APIs as well.
Can't see why? Windows internals didn't changed a bit since 3.11. Same COM based kernel, same Pascal inspired API...Bring your 'obscure COM' with you - it will run...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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/shrug.
Again, I'm assuming stuff that's now hidden behind UAT, or perhaps stuff that changed between XP and Weven. I'm drawing a blank on what it could be though, and I think I'm still running a few VB6 things at one customer (they look like it anyway).
TTFN - Kent
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The problem is you have to find out what the obscure COM bits that are missing are and find a way to get a hold of them.
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Seriously. And think about some of the windows controls like tree view and how they look the same as Win95 and almost the same as win3.11. Also, isn't it interesting that FileExplorer (Explorer) if pointed at a large repository will spin until it reads every file in the repo (even if there are 10s of thousands) and only after all are read will it begin to display them to you? That is an app in serious need of rewrite and it's the shell. 
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You are joking I hope.
The entire kernel is different since Windows 3.11. That was a 16-bit O/S built on top of DOS.
Modern Windows derives from Windows NT, an entirely different beast.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I didn't mean 3.11 literally - my point was that nothing changed since VB6 that should prevent running it on modern Windows... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I have an activex component that is still cookin along even in 8.1
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A new study of the questions asked on Stack Exchange reveals what issues are giving web developers headaches. This news item looks best on Netscape Navigator
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Since when someone who ask a question about HTML 5 on Stack Exchange is a web developer?!
Usage and implementation of HTML 5 in a word where the standard not even set IS a cross browser compatibility problem - in it's full beauty...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Except, of course, that the standards body advises which parts of the emerging standard are solid - so usage of them (which are generally well supported across major browsers) is pretty safe.
You're not keeping up very well are you.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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On an every hour basis - I can't do it more frequently. I also read the lines that we will not have a full standard before 2022 - and that's only a WD date...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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That's true, and I must admit a bit strange. The Working Group actually recommends that browsers use features that have not been absolutely ratified yet, but I guess otherwise it would disaster in terms of advancement of web technologies.
To be honest, I'm really not a great fan of the way the web is going. Alan Kay did an interesting interview with Dr Dobbs, where he talked about ideas of net-enabled app's being constructed from communicating objects. As it stands, it seems that rather than improving modularity and using messages to communicate between components, we're heading towards the browser becoming a (monolithic) O/S in its own right. What's worse, its running JavaScripts as its assembly - a bug-ridden language design right up there with VB6 in terms of risky features (such as assigning to an undeclared variable creating a new variable). Regardless of that, it must be possible to have something like a bytecode driven machine in the browser, rather than programs as text (with the implicit download costs etc).
As is frequently the case, mainstream computing seems staggeringly conservative, preferring to stick with compatibility rather than evolution.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With the .Net Foundation, Roslyn, and WinJS, Microsoft is completing its embrace of public code. "Open source is a cancer that attaches itself to everything it touches"
Or words to that effect. Developers! developers! developers!
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Quote: "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches"
Ballmer talked about Linux when told that - but he was true! See where he is after touched it
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Today, Microsoft demonstrated numerous enhancements to the Azure cloud platform. Using Azure, developers can now construct back ends for their mobile apps using .NET or Node.js. Azure also added support for Active Directory from mobile devices, as well as the ability to perform debugging locally and remotely.
"Our cloud is better than Amazon and Google's clouds, we swear! Here's all the cool stuff it can do!"
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We built our own event recording system to capture interesting context about your application, the network transactions, and what your visitor was doing on the page. Combine this with context of the DOM and Browser to give you a more-complete replay of the error. We call this the Error Telemetry, and it’s kinda like a BlackBox for your app.
If they can find a way to track back-end errors too, I'm sold.
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Just a few days after showing off photos of the new Kinect for Windows, Microsoft announced at its Build conference that the motion-tracking device will hit shelves sometime this summer. It looks like you're trying to operate the holodeck, would you like help with that?
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Google is reportedly considering running its own wireless network. Sources tell The Information that company executives have been discussing a plan to offer wireless service in areas where it's already installed Google Fiber high-speed internet. "All the better to see you with, my dear"
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