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Not sure why this is so remarkable. You can find similar assets on Windows buried in explorer.exe or shell32.dll. Hell just poking around my win10 install and I
by pdntspa 1y ago
Not sure why this is so remarkable. You can find similar assets on Windows buried in explorer.exe or shell32.dll. Hell just poking around my win10 install and I see winhlp32.exe and write.exe sporting their original Windows 3.x icons (though the programs themselves do not function)
My guess is that it's cheapest and lowest-risk to leave them in. It's not like most users are going to encounter them anyway.
- philistine 1y agoThe thing is you're comparing the king of backward compatibility with macOS, who is famous for shedding its past at a regular pace.
- omnibrain 1y agomoricons.dll is also still around. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250507-00/?p=111157 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250507-00/?p=11...