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I do wonder why they've not chosen to make progress in that regard to advancing the state of the system. Surely these are known good ideas that would improve th

I do wonder why they've not chosen to make progress in that regard to advancing the state of the system. Surely these are known good ideas that would improve the customer experience and the system from a technical level. I only speak as a very casual windows user, there is nuance I will miss with Microsoft's attitudes to it. I would have thought that even a separation between OS and User applications could allow them to implement features like a VFS, while still maintaining compatibility. Are they not part of the way there with Hyper-V + WSL?

naikrovek 6y ago
Microsoft would love to do these things, but backwards compatibility guarantees prevent advancement a lot of the time. You would not believe some of the business critical software out in the field. They rely on very obscure bugs being present in order to function, and they sometimes can't be fixed because the source code is missing. Apple has chosen the opposite path, which is to give the middle finger to long-term backwards compatibility, and advance their operating systems technically. You can't run an OSX game from 2002 on the Macs of today, but you almost always can run a Windows game from 2002 on the Windows 10 PCs of today.