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A rewrite without full backwards compatibility just wouldn’t have taken off. Even today, developers are reluctant to embrace the new Universal Windows Platform
by praseodym 8y ago
A rewrite without full backwards compatibility just wouldn’t have taken off. Even today, developers are reluctant to embrace the new Universal Windows Platform that sheds a lot of the legacy Win32 brings with it.
- matt2000 8y agoThat's why I was suggesting running Win7 in an emulator for legacy apps.
- tomc1985 8y agoWin7 did just that with WinXP
- wvenable 8y agoAnd everybody runs everything in the emulator, because day one that's where their apps are. Developers continue to develop for it because not everyone has upgraded to Win7 yet. And you just end up with 2 OS's competing for users and developers from one company.