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Re:Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief by Atotalnoob on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @12:16AM (#39824220)
The long tail of backwards compatibility, while impressive and amazing, is holding back windows, x86, and others.

As much as I would hate them breaking compatibility, eventually it has to give.

Imagine 50 years from now, never being able to improve things due to backwards compatibility…

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Re:Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief by jdsully on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @02:49PM (#39831401)
Having been a victim of win RT and other "modern" windows APIs the simple truth is the old stuff actually works and the new stuff is crap and gets deprecated after nobody adopts it.
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