The problem of cross platform dependency
Posted in Technology, Windows on September 15th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
The problem with the software world today is that they are platform dependant. Not all of them but the majority. Application are being made as windows only or mac only. Linux being open source has a sot of application built for it with source code available. Thus open source application generally are available as source linux binaries and windows binaries . in a sense open source is more cross platform than closed source application a generalisation but the numbers support it.
It’s problem that doesn’t seen to be solvable microsoft will release application programming interfaces to developers but they are obviously not going to release source code. Cross platform applications need to run on a different layer from the os something that is installable on any os something like’s sun’s java. Which runs anywhere and allows . java based applications to be run on any operating system . java has invaded the mobile phone markets as well and anything from games to software applications are now installable on your phone.
