(I know that's not an entirely accurate description of what he said).
Robert Scoble talks about the latest Microsoft MVP summit, and some of the backlash over VB 6.0 not having a recompile path to .NET and Vista. He tried to make the argument that sometimes things have to break for revolutionary change, and he's right. Then again, I'm not sure that Vista is a revolutionary change. Anyways, one aspect that Robert completely ignores is that he makes the assumption that if people are forced to do a rewrite, they'll do it on a Microsoft platform.
There are only so many times Microsoft can make you rewrite some code, before you decide to go elsewhere.
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Robert Scoble
Absolutely true, which is why it should be done with trepidation. We've lost a lot of customers over that decision. I don't recommend doing it.
Michael Still
Thanks for replying. I do think that there are times when interfaces need to break, but there should be transition options available as well. In fact, at the start of the .NET hye, the VB guys were promised such a transition option. Perhaps this time Microsoft will corporately learn that annoying their developers is a bad plan. Like Ballmer says "Developers, developers, developers".