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API Calls that break under Windows 7
Blog As mentioned in the Microsoft Compatibility tool-kit, the Developer cookbook and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN - see references below) there is a section called "Safe Exception handling" under Windows 7 that refers to the deprecation (end of...
[October 5, 2009, 10:34 in On The Road by Greg Lambert]
RE: API Calls that break under Windows 7
Blog Comment API compatibility is likely to get even worse if Microsoft actually manages to pull off the new OS project I've seen small mentions about. Win32 API calls will disappear and probably have to be emulated in some fashion.
[October 6, 2009, 9:22 by Xwindowsjunkie]
The API is Key
Talkback And the best thing about it is the API. IMHO Google Apps is competing today more with MS Exchange then with MS Office. It allows Google to grow and ecosystem of partners that will generate demand for their services.
About: Thinking outside the Office box
[March 14, 2007, 17:26 by edbong]
Gaps found in Microsoft Exchange API documentation
Talkback If they will call Redmond, and offer enough money, I'm sure the missing API's will be forwarded. I'm sure it's just an oversight by Micro$oft.
About: Gaps found in Microsoft Exchange API documentation
[March 11, 2008, 12:40 by ator1940]
Microsoft's draft licence, step by step
Talkback But all the EU is asking Microsoft for is the complete API to be freely available. And having the API means that you can (finally) have an intelligent conversation with the piece of Microsoft technology that you have *already bought*.
About: Microsoft's draft licence, step by step
[March 19, 2005, 23:03]
Microsoft accused of withholding Vista APIs
Talkback Oh give me a break.last time someone nagged about the Quick Launch API being missing, it was there the whole time along with the documentation. And last time Netscape claimed Win95 was deliberately made to crash it, it turned out that Quicktime...
About: Microsoft accused of withholding Vista APIs
[September 29, 2006, 6:53]
RIM gets “Pushy” over new BlackBerry developer APIs
Blog Research In Motion (RIM) has been talking publicly about “push” application programming interface (API) technologies for some time now, it was back in 2007 that we last heard about a new set of developer tools for the BlackBerry Java Development...
[May 7, 2009, 7:41 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Microsoft tells EC to learn from US
Talkback If the API's were availible and Mcrosoft used the same ones everyone else uses and stop breaking software. It would take creating an API without secrets and some sort of registry within the system that can keep multiple applications straight.
About: Microsoft tells EC to learn from US
[July 5, 2004, 17:55]
Google Apps gives OpenID a boost
Blog The way Google has achieved this is by extending their Google OpenID Federated Login API to refer to Google Apps custom domains if a "valid" OpenID identity -- in essence, an URL to a profile with an OpenID provider -- isn't found.
[July 29, 2009, 11:22 in Sentry Posts by wecando.biz]
Microsoft's licence to kill
Talkback Other companies charge money to view their API's (though some, such as Apple, do not). By doing so, Microsoft is saying "OK, you can view the API's, but we're going to make it so expensive that few people can do it.
About: Microsoft's licence to kill
[March 18, 2005, 22:10]
RE: Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment Delphi and some of the Borland languages got around the dependency problem by only using published and supported Win32 API calls. Java likewise uses Win32 API calls and has a runtime interface package optimized for the OS.
[October 27, 2008, 7:56 by Xwindowsjunkie]
Interesting write up - disagree with a few points
Talkback I think the *nix develops are holding back the industry by not creating standard API's for "numerous" desktops. Point to be made is, developers can develop new apps faster and with more capability because of Windows API's than for *nix.
About: Ten things holding back tech
[November 27, 2007, 19:43 by mc808]
A little Wine with your Linux?
Talkback Redhat needs the Linux kernel and CrossOver requires the WINE API). A more complete end-user package for the WINE API. Nice but your review is neither complete nor correct. Anything that can be run on Crossover Office can be run on Wine.
About: A little Wine with your Linux?
[October 7, 2003, 15:53]
Microsoft's draft licence, step by step
Talkback Microsoft tried to use the "intellectual Property" & "Trade Secrets" argument to protect the interface details of the API's - the judge asked why they had not been raised these arguments in the original case and summised that, as Microsoft had...
About: Microsoft's draft licence, step by step
[March 27, 2005, 12:59]
Microsoft's Ballmer: Digital device for the living room at 'tipping point'
Talkback All that really holds Apple back is slow market uptake, and that seems to be changing as people realize you can get your core desktop business software on a Mac and still have industry-standard API's to enable cross-platform native computing.
About: Microsoft's Ballmer: Digital device for the living room at 'tipping point'
[October 4, 2004, 14:00]
Imagination Technologies announces OpenVG 1.1 conformance for POWERVR SGX
Blog OpenVG is a royalty-free vector graphics API (application programming interface) for consumer electronics devices, enabling them to deliver sophisticated 2D graphical applications using two-dimensional Bezier-based vector and raster graphics.
[February 16, 2009, 15:03 in Imagination Technologies: Creating Tomorrow's Technologies by Imagination Technologies]
.Net developers can write for Linux using Mono
Talkback Where WiNE simulates the Win32 API, MONO simulates the next generation Win32 franchise replacement, the .NET framework. Chairman Bill risked the empire to make sure that these efforts to poach on the Windows platform, cannabolizing and pillaging...
About: .Net developers can write for Linux using Mono
[May 7, 2004, 23:48]
IE8: Another Application Compatibility Platform
Blog Does you application reference any API's or functionality from these groups? Deprecated API's Getting applications to work on Vista or Windows Server 2008 is not the only compatibility issue that you may encounter.
[October 12, 2009, 11:18 in On The Road by Greg Lambert]
Microsoft Terminal Services Compatibility Analyser
Blog Windows API calls with special cases for TS Noting that Microsoft Terminal Services (TS) may cause application compatibility issues due to the shared nature of application resources (as opposed to the single user nature of desktop environments) the...
[October 19, 2009, 9:10 in Sentry Posts by Greg Lambert]
Single biggest thing holding Linux back? Vendor lock-in
Blog It doesn't matter that Linux uses an open platform API, if most line-of-business apps are written to the obfuscated and proprietary Windows API, and Microsoft does its absolute best to ensure that few of these apps 'fly the coup' to Linux's open...
[February 17, 2009, 7:54 in Khaotic Musings by conz]
