"they don't have an API for writing native code apps on Windows" I'm still writing to the native WIN32 API (albeit via Borland's C++Builder which uses the VCL

"they don't have an API for writing native code apps on Windows" I'm still writing to the native WIN32 API (albeit via Borland's C++Builder which uses the VCL 'Visual Component Library', the same library that powers Delphi) and that stuff still runs on Windows 7.