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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by paulryanrogers on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:38PM (#42010023)
I think they were referring to internal consistency?

Windows XP did allow apps to do some crazy things, though not sure how much of that was unique to XP vs legacy APIs.

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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by Dwedit on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:43PM (#42011310)
"Layered Windows" is how an application can have a window which is not the typical rectangular shape, such as the "Head" skin for Windows Media Player. That would be the "crazy things" that apps were allowed to do.
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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by andrewshadura on Friday November 01, 2024 @02:46AM (#42014593)
That's just a mask applied to the window, app were always allowed to do that on Windows and still are.
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