In article ,
Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
The things that really bother me about NT, as opposed to Win32, are that GDI
is non-optional (well, for all practical purposes) and that it seems to
have some fairly deep assumptions that you're not going to be running
multiple instances of a given application.

??? why? you can try by opening, for instance, 100 Notepads.

I didn't say "you can't run multiple instances". I said the OS assumes
you aren't going to.

But the application has to explicitly use things like event and registry
key names that are unique to each instance of the application, or else
share them among all instances.

Consider running two different versions of IIS on one server, for example.
Don't worry about *why*, right now, just consider what it would involve.

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