Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft?

Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by makecheck on Friday September 17, 2010 @06:53AM (#1700677)

I would add specifically that virtualization is overdue. Apple's strategy back in the day was pretty good: sandbox the entire old OS so that users can still get most things to "just work", but then support only a subset of APIs on the new OS. Apple also kept the old OS as-is (i.e. ugly), while using all the nice new technologies and look-and-feel as bait to encourage developers to move.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by pierrefar on Friday September 17, 2010 @06:59AM (#1700687)

Yes very good point. Build a good foundation OS and then virtualise for backwards compatibility.

I think .net is a good bait for such a new system. From the little interaction I've had with C# devs, they seem to like it.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by limmeau on Friday September 17, 2010 @07:26AM (#1700727)

There is already the XP mode in Windows 7, which boots a virtualized XP for compatibility.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by pierrefar on Friday September 17, 2010 @08:16AM (#1700842)

Thanks. Didn't know that.

Hopefuly this means that implementing the idea I'm talking about is not too much of a stretch from the current code.

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