[Info-vax] Compatibility, Porting, Migration

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/29/2018 12:32 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> The folks at Microsoft have massive problems with an enormous installed 
> base and with software and hardware permutations nearly beyond 
> comprehension, and many of those folks either aren't willing or aren't 
> able to move forward.   Hauling all those folks forward is not and never 
> will be easy.    Complete compatibility is impossible, too.   The .NET 
> frameworks are how the Redmond folks have worked to reduce some of those 
> permutations, and as has been discussed around here in comp.os.vms 
> newsgroup before.   .NET is a very logical progression from the OpenVMS 
> common run-time environment and calling standard.   it's really quite 
> clever, what they've done to isolate many of the system dependencies 
> into the framework.

.NET is very cool.

But note that MS took a little step backwards from .NET to the old
world some years ago.

WinRT/UWP is not .NET based but based on COM (it uses .NET
compatible metadata though).

A shame in my opinion. But ...

Arne