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[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in fairness to them microsoft takes their backwards compatibility seriously to the point where i'd absolutely see them keeping their old implementation hidden somewhere and hot-swapping it in when they detect an old program that needs some inexplicable internal access to some C struct being launched.

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is true, that could be the case based off previous observations buuuut considering they’re doing this for security purposes, I think it make little sense to leave them behind

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Then again, megalithic tech companies do stupid shit all the time