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by philistine 701 days ago
See Satya Nadella has recently said that Microsoft will now put security above any other value at Microsoft. He specifically even singled out backwards compatibility.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/03/prioritizing-sec...

Microsoft is a big boat. It takes a long time to turn if the captain orders it. But the captain has ordered it. I expect the sacrosanct nature of back compat to eventually die. Windows will never turn into the moving target that macOS is, but I expect a lot of old stuff to just stop working, when security concerns dictate they should be removed.