[Lazarus] fpGUI

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:45:59PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote:
>> 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 this: Windows Forms has been in effect superseded by Windows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
>
> That's because WPF is the base of Silverlight, which they wanted to push,
> also for applications.

Just like .NET (and so Windows Forms) "superseded" Win32.

Meanwhile, Win32 is still around and functioning just fine. 
And as long as Microsoft supports Visual C++, win32 will be around.

It's mostly about marketing; very little about technology. 
Microsoft needs to make money, as any commercial enterprise.

Michael.