My sense is that this is more or less rubbish. As it stands, Microsoft hasn't really offered much reason for people to "upgrade" from XP to their next product, whatever it's called. If they make a product that Perl can't run on, then they've removed yet one more incentive for people to upgrade.

They'd be saying, "Switch to Vista (or Longhorn, or whatever), and we'll charge you more money, break your programs, and your scripts won't work, either." Who could pass up a deal like that?

Microsoft might not know a whole lot about software production, but they do know a lot about business. They aren't likely to risk losing customers by breaking things for them. At least, not by doing it on purpose.

In reply to Re: Future of Perl on Win32? by spiritway
in thread Future of Perl on Win32? by bowei_99

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