No, not really. Win32, the bit that you use to actually put a window on the screen, is a system library that is simply backwards compatible forever. You don't d

No, not really. Win32, the bit that you use to actually put a window on the screen, is a system library that is simply backwards compatible forever. You don't distribute Win32 with your applications. Go ahead and try to find a copy of USER32.DLL distributed with your old applications; you won't find it.