[signal11]

I suspect it's a mindset change. Not heeding demand and staying stuck in the past was how Windows became a punchline, although I'm sure enterprise customers loved it. At some point it did begin to change -- I suspect it hasn't changed enough for HN readers.

For instance, Unix LF support was added to Notepad back in 2018 (at last!) with a few registry switches for compatibility.[1]

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...

[pjc50]

They tried about one-and-a-half times to do a big compatibility break: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT and Windows Phone. It was a failure, of course.

I'm not entirely clear whether the "current" API set called "WinRT" is the continuation of "Windows RT". It sounds plausible but it could just be Microsoft being terrible at naming.