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Bad? Microsoft had a long history of maintaining backwards compatibility. I wrote a program for Windows XP that still runs unmodified in Windows 11.



Old Microsoft yes, the new generation that got on board during the Windows 8 days not so much.

There is hardly anything backwards compatible during the multiple WinRT reboots that have happened since then.


Drivers will literally stop working between different "feature updates" of windows 10.


Kernel side backwards compatibility is a different story, and not just on Windows. Here we are talking about programs (userspace side).




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