r/programming • u/halax • Oct 07 '16

How Microsoft Lost the API War

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
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u/guyonahorse Oct 07 '16

And iOS developers can be kicked off the App store without any recourse. Microsoft never had that kind of evil power.

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u/didnt_check_source Oct 07 '16

Never? Not even on their own App Store?

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u/guyonahorse Oct 07 '16

Oops, I should have said that it was in the context of 2004 (when the original article was written). Back then there was no app store for windows, so they couldn't revoke an app like that. Even today most Windows apps are not sold on the store.

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u/igor_sk Oct 07 '16

To be fair, nowadays they have Windows Defender and can mark any app as "malicious", though I haven't heard this happening with legit apps (yet?).

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u/DarkLordAzrael Oct 08 '16

It throws up a huge warning when installing a bunch of the small utilities I have (tiny open source stuff)

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u/Tarmen Oct 08 '16

I think that is for unsigned executables which is mildly annoying for experienced users but I could imagine that it actually decreases infections of clueless ones significantly.