The day MS depracates WinAPI, they're control of the desktop is over, as every company which develops huge codebases will switch to an environment where their programs doesn't have to be rewritten at MS's discretion.
As far as languages go, it broke a lot. Not that it shouldn't have (register_globals) but it was obvious they were learning on the job. You can't run most PHP3 code nowadays without work.
The day MS depracates WinAPI, they're control of the desktop is over, as every company which develops huge codebases will switch to an environment where their programs doesn't have to be rewritten at MS's discretion.
As far as languages go, it broke a lot. Not that it shouldn't have (register_globals) but it was obvious they were learning on the job. You can't run most PHP3 code nowadays without work.