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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by coldtea on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:15AM (#24754526)
>I am having a really hard time seeing how one can infer from that timeline that Microsoft's desktop OS line follows a philosophy of "catering to the user, keeping things consistent, and being backwards compatible."

In the simple sense that you can run ancient Win 95 applications in any of these later versions (if not 3.11 and DOS too).

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by sandworm101 on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:35AM (#24754725)
>> you can run ancient Win 95 applications in any of these later versions

In theory, according to MS. In reality we all have seen old applications die when windows updates. Security-related applications are notorious for this. What once worked perfectly well with Win8 now goes into total panic mode when it sees Win10 doing its thing in unexpected ways.

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by coldtea on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:17AM (#24755249)
>In reality we all have seen old applications die when windows updates. Security-related applications are notorious for this.

I wouldn't expect "security related" applications to work (e.g. some antivirus), as they use bizarro / too low level APIs.

But you can still run 15+ year old games, office apps, and whatever...

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