http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/vista-sp1-doesnt-kill-software-bad-coders-do/ Connecting Ideas Thu, 24 May 2012 20:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/vista-sp1-doesnt-kill-software-bad-coders-do/comment-page-1/#comment-115314 Kelson Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:05:52 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/vista-sp1-doesnt-kill-software-bad-coders-do/#comment-115314 I had similar thoughts on IE7 when it came out. It had been in public beta for a year, plenty of time for web developers to check and see what was different. And there was one Mac OS X upgrade I remember that had lots of people complaining that it "broke" their software because they changed API calls -- except that the API in question hadn't been frozen yet, with Apple suggesting that people not use it until it was. I had similar thoughts on IE7 when it came out. It had been in public beta for a year, plenty of time for web developers to check and see what was different. And there was one Mac OS X upgrade I remember that had lots of people complaining that it “broke” their software because they changed API calls — except that the API in question hadn’t been frozen yet, with Apple suggesting that people not use it until it was.

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