by Abraham L
When Microsoft first publicly demonstrated their new version of Windows (Windows 8,) there were generally positive reactions. The new operating system is attractive, clean, thoughtful, and finger-friendly. It wasn’t until when Microsoft’s announcement of having Java and HTML5 as the primary develop environments that worried developers as they have invested a large amount of time and effort into APIs like COM, MFC, ATL, Visual Basic 6, etc. With the exception of Visual Basic 6, this means the previous programming knowledge for Windows developers practically rendered useless and discarding along with it rich, capable frameworks along with it.
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