good points

Posted Apr 10, 2016 14:50 UTC (Sun) by reedstrm (guest, #8467)
In reply to: good points by Wol
Parent article: Ubuntu on Windows

ISTR one of those windows upgrades involving Microsoft giving WordPerfect early access to some APIs, then yanking/ not releasing parts that wp depended on, but that word did not, just before the release. Result: wp broke on upgrade. Pretty sure there was a lawsuit.

good points

Posted Apr 10, 2016 15:14 UTC (Sun) by reedstrm (guest, #8467) [Link] (1 responses)

Or that it came out in discovery or testimony during the drdos lawsuit.

good points

Posted Apr 10, 2016 16:11 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

Also ISTR that the Microsoft applications used to use special undocumented APIs that could do convenient and powerful things and were (a) unavailable to third-party applications, (b) not part of any stability or support guarantees because they weren't part of the documented interface, so even if a third-party developer figured out one of them for Windows version N they had no guarantee that their code would keep working on Windows version N+1.