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Re:Last Phase of the Desktop Wars? by Impossible on Sunday September 27, 2020 @12:49PM (#24607991)
Legacy support and continued backwards compatibility is one of the biggest strengths of Windows. I can still run weird games I made 15-20 years ago without issue. As a regular users of both MacOS and Windows, I don't agree that MacOS feels more stable, recently it's felt less stable than Windows, but obviously that's anecdotal and depends on usage.
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Re:Last Phase of the Desktop Wars? by buzzerbetrayed on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:05PM (#24608125)
I don't see the problem with GP's suggestion. Couldn't you still run your 15-20 year old games if Windows 10 shipped with a Windows XP VM that integrated seamlessly with the Desktop?
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Re:Last Phase of the Desktop Wars? by Impossible on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:34PM (#24608415)
It's possible that performance would be an issue with some use cases, startup times, etc. Eventually this will probably be a reality, in the same way you can't run DOS binaries without an emulator or VM
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