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Re: Vista again
Not quite a correct analogy, its like saying you can only fit a Ford Alarm to protect it.
Software should present a documented and stable API. That is what is deemed correct practice. Microsoft do neither. A good friend wrote some very low level backup software for enterprises that could take any computer back to a split second in time. to do so he had to effectivley intercept writes to disk, Microsoft changed teh API with a service pack, published it on MSDN but forgot to ensure what they released matched the published software. All his software stopped working and when he tried to patch it using teh published API it wouldn't work. It took him weeks of midnight oil to re-engineer the code and when he published teh 'correct' API for other developers Microsoft threatened to sue him for doing what they should have done.
Vista is rubbish, even Microst execs refused to upgrade to it for the first 6 montsh due to lack of drivers. Says something when your senior execs don't even trust it
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