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This is where I really need to pay respects to Windows. It’s a heaping pile but their commitment to backwards compatibility is remarkable. I recently installed
by IggleSniggle 6y ago
This is where I really need to pay respects to Windows. It’s a heaping pile but their commitment to backwards compatibility is remarkable. I recently installed a complex application that last updated in 2007, and while performance was absolutely terrible, it worked.
- bombcar 6y agoMicrosoft’s dedication to backwards compatibility is insane - going so far as to ship with thousands of shims to imitate buggy code and hardware. Virtualization is killing the need to do that, sadly.