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by hulitu 503 days ago
> Isn’t backwards compatibility one of the tentpole features of Windows?

It was. A long time ago. Running old games on Windows has become challenging.

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Genuinely not trying to move goalposts here, but I feel like games have always been the exception, due in part to their reliance on so many of-the-time technologies, at least for AAA titles. Either way yours is a fair point. I still think the original point broadly holds for more traditional programs though.