Windows 8 does away with the registry

**BOB IROC** · July 25th, 2012, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by Niclo Iste

It looks like Microsoft is moving forward and doing away with old technology. That's a shame as part of my goal this year was to master everything about the Windows Registry. Here's the article below.

http://lanceulanoff.tumblr.com/post/...t-the-registry

From what I have read this has been a long term goal of theirs but the registry is not something you can just simply do away with without breaking backwards compatibility so it has to be done in steps. After all we do not want a situation like Apple did with OSX and scrapped their old OS and broke every piece of software out there and had to ship computers dual boot for a while. That worked for them because they did not have the market use that Windows does. Microsoft does not have that luxury to alienate their customers and partner developers like that. I think they are doing a decent job advancing their technology even though I am on the fence about the whole Metro UI on a desktop computer with minimal to no touch interface.