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by jorvi 659 days ago
> MSFT have spent a lot of time, effort and dev years ensuring that their customers can run their software without breakage and downtime

I don’t know about that, but they have spent a lot of hours making sure you can run .exe’s from 30 years back, which is wildly valuable to slow-moving corporations.

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> I don’t know about that, but they have spent a lot of hours making sure you can run .exe’s from 30 years back, which is wildly valuable to slow-moving corporations.

Which ones? There are tools like dosbox to get old DOS programs running again.