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You said "they invented 15 ways instead of having malloc". By "they" you mean Microsoft right?

Windows does have malloc as a C api for programs using the C runtime library. Same as everywhere else.

Then, at the OS api level, there are indeed several memory management functions. But you usually don’t need them. Except if you are writing a custom memory allocator for instance. Also same as everywhere else.

So saying Windows has X memory management functions instead of malloc is incorrect.