> I'm not sure if modern Windows even ships with a copy -- it definitely doesn't ship with copies of all the versions that applications might depend on. They a

> I'm not sure if modern Windows even ships with a copy -- it definitely doesn't ship with copies of all the versions that applications might depend on. They actually did end up fixing this with Windows 10. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/universal-crt-deployment?view=msvc-170 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/universal-crt-... I think what finally pushed them in that direction was wanting to be in control of security updates for libc. > Linux follows the Windows model, where the stable interface is the kernel (Linux's syscalls, Windows's ntdll). ntdll isn't stable. They remove entypoints with just about every major release.