4 ms·

It probably has only gotten more responsive by virtue of being made to run fast on hardware from the early 2000s

• Baeocystin 8y ago
  You're not wrong. I'll be genuinely sad when Windows eventually drops whatever API support allows it to keep running without emulation.
  • Kye 8y ago
    Microsoft is famously unwilling to let software stop working. Picasa will probably work forever.
    • erik_seaberg 8y ago
      Dropping Win16 was a bad sign. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... talks about the back compat faction losing power at Microsoft.
      • Kye 8y ago
        Interesting read. A lot has changed in the almost 15 years since he published it. Has he done any followups?