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Good old Windows Cement. https://external-preview.redd.it/1WN9Vrz1gjERiGjyfJ8kUZEANRBBcFdd-Sn2D1CXD0U.png?auto=webp&s=71e25910eba00481fc53ccba97139b52023ddb72

• Dalewyn 3y ago
  Windows today is unironically cement solid. Windows XP incorporated more user-centric elements from 9x, which culminated with ME, into NT. Windows 8 incorporated more mobile-centric elements from CE into NT. Windows is still rock solid at running programs from almost 30 years ago.
  • xtracto 3y ago
    Shit, there are computers doing productive work and going strong on MSDOS 6.22 here in Mexico. Released in 1994, that makes it 30 year old software working without issues. Google software can only DREAM of doing that. Microsoft was doing software while Google people were still even not planned to be born.
    • Dalewyn 3y ago
      Fun trivia of the day: MS-DOS 1 through 7.0 only reached EOL in 2001, and MS-DOS 7.1 and 8 which were shipped with Windows 9x only reached EOL in 2006. If we consider the start year to be 1981, the year MS-DOS 1 came out, that is twenty years of official, commercial support, if we count 7.1 and 8 that's twenty five years. If you need software you can count on to still be there a few decades down the line, if not more de facto, count on Microsoft to deliver.