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Re:Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Late... by Already__Taken on Friday November 18, 2016 @09:52AM (#12987105)
Console GUI applications. Pretty much any tweak to conhost ever and they'd implode.

I don't know what's changed now but they've rolled that policy away. Maybe virtualization?

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Re:Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Late... by Someone on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:27PM (#12988915)
They may have decided that the number of people running console programs with a GUI is low enough now.

I don't know whether it still was necessary, but the removal of support for 16-bit applications from 64-bit Windows 7 will not have hurt there.

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