As developer I was a bit less excited as it kind of settled the victory of COM over .NET after the Longhorn/Vista civil war at Redmond.
So while it was indeed a great version of Windows, having COM as the new way of shipping Windows APIs wasn't that welcoming, it is kind of incredible how for such a critical technology on Windows development, Microsoft keeps shipping cluncky frameworks to write and consume COM.
There was even the famous Hilo sample that was praising this as the way forward,
So while it was indeed a great version of Windows, having COM as the new way of shipping Windows APIs wasn't that welcoming, it is kind of incredible how for such a critical technology on Windows development, Microsoft keeps shipping cluncky frameworks to write and consume COM.
There was even the famous Hilo sample that was praising this as the way forward,
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-hilo/
https://github.com/microsoftarchive/msdn-code-gallery-micros...