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0 pointsvanderZwan7y ago0 comments

It probably has only gotten more responsive by virtue of being made to run fast on hardware from the early 2000s

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You're not wrong. I'll be genuinely sad when Windows eventually drops whatever API support allows it to keep running without emulation.

Kye7y ago

Microsoft is famously unwilling to let software stop working. Picasa will probably work forever.

Dropping Win16 was a bad sign. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... talks about the back compat faction losing power at Microsoft.

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0 pointsvanderZwan7y ago0 comments

It probably has only gotten more responsive by virtue of being made to run fast on hardware from the early 2000s

You're not wrong. I'll be genuinely sad when Windows eventually drops whatever API support allows it to keep running without emulation.

Kye7y ago

Microsoft is famously unwilling to let software stop working. Picasa will probably work forever.

Dropping Win16 was a bad sign. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... talks about the back compat faction losing power at Microsoft.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse