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by anonymars 276 days ago
That's not the key distinction -- of course Windows will likely have internal-only APIs for its own internal use. The problem is when e.g. there are special internal Windows APIs that Office can use but Lotus/etc. can't, or that Edge can use but Firefox/Chrome/etc. can't.
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snackbroken 275 days ago
Sorry, yes. To clarify, it's about withholding features of a product in one market from your competitors in the other market.
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anonymars 273 days ago
Yeah, I wasn't trying to be snarky, rather there often seems to be a "private code shouldn't exist, code wants to be free!" ethos that makes my eyebrows twitch in PTSD from reading all of Raymond Chen's tales of depending on undocumented code, e.g.

*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42...

*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031223-00/?p=41...

*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230113-00/?p=10...

*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060109-27/?p=32...

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