Microsoft's compatibility conundrum: When is it wrong to do the 'right' thing?
Over the past couple of days, on a couple of different fronts, Microsoft watchers have been musing about compatibility -- or, to be more precise, backward compatibility. On the Windows Mobile front, there are worries over whether WM7 will be compatible with WM6.x. On the IE front, there are worries Microsoft is too concerned with backward compatibility.