[another2another]

>Surely Microsoft would like to shake out the last diehards running some VB5 app on a patched up PC in a factory. >Isn't it more beneficial to everyone to start sunsetting acres of ancient NT code and approaches and streamline the entire attack surface?

If your code somehow still relies on some buggy behaviour to work, then MS shouldn't do anything to preserve that anymore - apparently they used to, but I'm not so sure nowadays.

However 'ancient NT' code should probably still function just fine since the Win32 API hasn't changed much for a while, and MS don't actively deprecate function calls (unlike Apple who seem to do it a bit on a whim recently). I would put this down to the API being pretty well designed in the first place.