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Yup, that's always been Microsoft's strength. I remember hearing epic stories from ex-MS coworkers about the internals of CreateFile/Read/etc. All sorts of con
by vvanders 10y ago
Yup, that's always been Microsoft's strength.
I remember hearing epic stories from ex-MS coworkers about the internals of CreateFile/Read/etc. All sorts of convolutions to keep back compat with things from the win31 and earlier days. Painful to work on as a developer but great for customers.
- JamesLeonis 10y agoI can sing the praises of Microsoft's backwards compatibility twice! The first is the little graphics library that is abused by µTorrent since the 9x days, and HTML Applications that lets me run Javascript with full system access. That team is the unsung heroes of computing while (IMO) I'm breaking stuff all the time.