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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by userbinator on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:01AM (#21451950)
Or applications written for Windows NT that still work - unmodified! - on Windows 10 thanks to layers of compatibility hacks.

I'd call that more "stable API" than anything else --- Win32 is Win32, and while they've added functionality over the years, the basic stuff remains the same.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by lima on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:14AM (#21452029)
It's not just the formal API - features like UAC and high DPI scaling require emulation layers. And there's more to the OS than just Win32.
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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by anticensor on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:49PM (#21456532)
UAC's compatibility workaround is privilege exemption, not emulation. It is not like TrustedInstaller was suddenly introduced in Windows 6.
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