Why are INI files deprecated in favor of the registry?

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4 pointsdomino3 comments

The Registry - and by extension, installers in most cases - are over-engineered solution to the program config problem.

OSX has been successfully using XML config files for 10+ years, and Unix in general with /etc/ and user's home dot-files for much longer.

Dotfiles are really great in terms of portability.

Which sums up nicely why MS doesn't use them.