Re: Vista and .NET (Win32 life may be limted)

"Xavier" <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dan Palley wrote:
The 16-bit API has been dropped completely in 64-bit versions of XP, 2003
Server and Vista. It took a while, but it will happen for the 32-bit API
at some point as well.

Maybe when there's a 128-bit version of Windows. Win16 was supported for
so many years, I have no doubt an API several orders of magnitude larger
like Win32 would be supported for at least as many.

Plus Win64 is pretty much Win32 with bigger integers. If .NET really was
the one and only, almighty future, why did they bother? Of course; the
'life' of Win32 is indeed limited. That's what Win64 is for.

Well, theoretically, with .NET, I can create one .exe that will run
optimally on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows on potentially new
CPU platforms that have yet to be designed. I can't do that using the Win32
or Win64 API.

Dan


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