Backward Compatibility

Nearly a decade after USB 2.0 was first introduced, this practically ubiquitous technology is poised for its first major upgrade in years. Symwave, a semiconductor startup, and hard-drive maker Seagate are showing the first working demonstration of SuperSpeed--otherwise known as USB 3.0-- at CES...  

Ever since the induction of IIS 7, there came a cool new feature for developers to leverage called Integrated Pipeline.  

Python 3.0 has been officially released. This major update sacrifices backwards compatibility, but brings many significant improvements.  

For those who purchased a PS3 and cannot play PS2 games, there’sa rumor around that might be of interest to you. If there weren’t rumors in the video game ...  

Version 6 of the popular Perl programming language will not be compatible with previous versions, but will open up a new world of custom "languages" and interpreters, according to its founder Larry Wall. Wall and his co-developers are doing with Perl 6 -- starting again. "It will break backward...  

Ian Murdock blogs about the importance of backward compatibility . "Yes, it's hard, particularly in the Linux world, because there are thousands of developers building the components that make up the platform, ...  

JavaFX = Swing 2.0 Some in the Swing developer community have held out for a Swing 2.0 that corrects the mistakes of the past, even at the expense of backward compatibility.