To be fair I think the number of 16-bit applications still in use would surprise a lot of people. The author responded to a comment I left on the blog about 16

To be fair I think the number of 16-bit applications still in use would surprise a lot of people. The author responded to a comment I left on the blog about 16-bit applications and he seemed confused about when development of 16-bit applications would have ended. He seemed to think around 1988; however, the Win32 API wasn't rolled out to the desktop until 1995 with Windows 95. Internet Explorer was available in a 16-bit version until IE5 which was released in 1999. Most of the 16-bit applications I see still in production had last releases in the early 2000s.