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Haha, are you aware of how many layers of Windows are just backward compatibility hacks? Architecturally Windows has changed a lot since Win98.

The fact that your 30year old business software is still running is just the fact that Windows has built in patches for some common programming patterns used at the time and someone having insight enough can enable/disable them (mostly).

Btw, the same for games. Windows detects specific games and re-enables former direct x bugs.

There are numerous layers of abstraction between your Win32 application and the Kernel, there’s no reason they won’t work on another kernel.

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Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The fact that your 30year old business software is still running is just the fact that Windows has built in patches for some common programming patterns used at the time and someone having insight enough can enable/disable them (mostly).

… which is exactly my point. What’s yours?

Oh. And of course it’s badly debuggable and frequently goes wrong.

Not so frequently to cause major disruptions.

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- froh42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Much too frequently, if you need to manage systems for a company.
  
  THAT is my point.
  
  I have spent too many nights unrolling and blocking Windows updates just to keep the fucking MS Exchange server happy.
  
  Yeah it was paid time, but I’m much more happy if the systems I care about just run without hiccups.
  
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  - Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Yeah it was paid time, but I’m much more happy if the systems I care about just run without hiccups.
    
    No such thing exists, especially with legacy corpo software.
    
    Windows is inherently unstable, that’s my point.
    
    As a Windows admin for the past ~20 years - nonsense.
    
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