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by msh 1403 days ago
Ah, that cant be right. Maybe for some platforms/stacks, but a windows desktop stack using somewhat standard tools will be backwards compatible for ages.

I have seen several companies using ancient windows apps for day to day work without issues. Personally I still sometimes use a somewhat complex GUI app that I last compiled around 2002-2003 with borland c++ builder without issues.
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jollyllama 1402 days ago
Really? These don't require any updates to run on Windows 10, etc? If that's true, why are there still industrial and military users running Windows XP?
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msh 1402 days ago
No updates at all. On one of the screens the buttons look a little bit off with modern windows themes but perfectly functional.

This will ofc not be true for all applications, I am certain somethings break, esp if they depend on hardware drivers.

If you check the blog "the old new thing" you can read about the crazy lenghts microsoft goes to for keeping backward compability.

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jollyllama 1401 days ago
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
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