It's not that Windows has backward compatibility solved better than anyone. It's that they don't remove the old stuff. They only removed Win16 in the 64-bit ver

It's not that Windows has backward compatibility solved better than anyone. It's that they don't remove the old stuff. They only removed Win16 in the 64-bit versions of Windows so it was around for 20 years. Perhaps they will leave Win32 in until they come out with Win128.