Right, and when they told us Active Desktop was the future of the Windows UI and we should bet the success of our applications on it some of us knew to ignore it back then too.
The lesson here for developers is not to do what MSDN advises you to do. Look at what MS is actually doing for its own application development. In some cases, like Office, that even means having a portable codebase.
The lesson here for developers is not to do what MSDN advises you to do. Look at what MS is actually doing for its own application development. In some cases, like Office, that even means having a portable codebase.