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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by Baeocystin on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:16PM (#19332550)
You're not wrong. I'll be genuinely sad when Windows eventually drops whatever API support allows it to keep running without emulation.
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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by Kye on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:10PM (#19333057)
Microsoft is famously unwilling to let software stop working. Picasa will probably work forever.
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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by erik_seaberg on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:22PM (#19333149)
Dropping Win16 was a bad sign. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... talks about the back compat faction losing power at Microsoft.
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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by Kye on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:32PM (#19333250)
Interesting read. A lot has changed in the almost 15 years since he published it. Has he done any followups?
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