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Whenever I look at the Win32 runtime I realize that it is one of the fundamental reasons that Windows has dominated the desktop market.

One of the major reasons Windows is still the powerhouse for gaming that it is revolves around the fact that, unless there were bad choices made by the game author, most games from around 2000 or so will continue to run to this day unmodified. Basically any XP game that doesn't do something Actually Dangerous is probably able to Just Work^tm in a way that no other OS really has the capacity to.

The youtube user NTDEV, rather famous for getting That XP Leak to build, took the herculean effort to upgrade windows across every extant build that they could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW4rk3gFOxM