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by viraptor 264 days ago
> what a mess Windows is because of it.

Can you point at any part of windows being a mess specifically because of backwards compatibility?
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jitl 264 days ago
Control panel / settings
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viraptor 264 days ago
That one's incomplete migration rather than backwards compatibility. As in, they failed to move everything rather than moving everything but preserving the old way for compatibility with something.
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