[Lazarus] *SPAM* Re: Win 10 IOT Core

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Michael Schnell wrote:

> On 10/19/2015 12:51 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I *seriously* doubt the first part of this statement, because Delphi 
>> explicitly does not support the windows runtime on which IOT is based.
> See my message above in this thread (10/16/2015, 03:13):
>
> "I asked my colleague who tested this with the MinowBoard Max and he confirms 
> that Delphi programs do run as Services (with an Event Queue but without a 
> GUI), but normal applications don't show a form."
>
> This person really is not an idiot but a very versatile programmer doing 
> Delphi since it exists, Turbo Pascal before !

I did not claim otherwise :)

>
>> You can find several statements in this regard by Embarcadero employees.
>
> Obviously they did not try service applications.

We can at least conclude that there is a lot of confusion about what it is and what it is not;

But seeing that it is Microsoft, this does not come as a surprise...
There are more vendors at work than actual programmers in that company.

Michael.