[diego_moita]

> I don't know why this is buried

Because it is the typical anti-M$ conspiracy theory. It blames on "evil" what it can't understand.

Win32 is not insecure because they wanted to sell security. It is what it is because that's what made sense at the time, before Internet and viruses appeared, memory was restrained and virtualization and sandboxing were obscure techniques and processing power and memory were severely constrained.

The "could have been done decades ago" is not that simple. One way or the other it should imply in limiting direct access to resources by programmers. And, giving how big the Win32 ecosystem became, that's more political than technical.

[emodendroket]

Well, yeah, a lot of the decisions that people question have to do with not breaking existing software.