[Lazarus] fpGUI

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 21 21:29:08 CET 2011


On 21.02.2011 04:21, waldo kitty wrote:
> On 2/20/2011 14:45, Sven Barth wrote:
>> On 20.02.2011 19:29, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>> Huh? WPF has been advocated for ages (and is indeed Microsofts prefered
>>> technology), but afaik WinForms 2.0 is still the more used tech?
>>
>> Of course this is not an official statement from Microsoft, but the
>> article on
>> WinForms on Wikipedia (
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation ) writes
>> this:
>> Windows Forms has been in effect superseded by Windows Presentation
>> Foundation
>
> [OS/2 experience rearing its ugly head]
> i have to wonder if and how much of the above may be related to the
> original OS/2 Presentation Manager stuffings or if it is simply a name
> that is close to what was once shared by m$ and IBM ;)
> [\OS/2 experience rearing its ugly head]

I'd say that Microsoft has long forgotten its OS/2 past with IBM... 
after all they've removed the OS/2 subsystem from Windows after Windows 
2000.

Regards,
Sven




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