Absolutely, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t decades of backwards compatibility cruft everywhere. Microsoft needs to just support legacy versions of windows m

Absolutely, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t decades of backwards compatibility cruft everywhere. Microsoft needs to just support legacy versions of windows more or less forever to keep those institutional users happy and draw a line for the majority of users who want to at least keep some kind of pace. You don’t have to obsolete everything like Apple does, but we’re well past the point where you can virtualize or emulate something like Windows 7 or older and it will still be faster than bare metal of the time.