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    submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
     

    Though the Windows thing was really funny ๐Ÿ˜‚.

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    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, but get this! It's not enough to just envoke cmd in Windows with just Win+R (sorry, sorry... Super+R ๐Ÿ˜), even though you're invoking it from an admin account, no sir, it's still just a plain user as long as cmd is concerned ๐Ÿ˜‚.

    And this is what you get when you wanna do backwards compatibility all the way down to DOS ๐Ÿ˜‚.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    We have pretty good backwards compatibility too, to my knowledge it's actually better.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    My point was, MS has backwards compatibility all the way down to an OS that has no sense of users and permissions and that is why Windows, even nowadays, has these problems. If you get rid of the DOS legacy stuff, you can have decent user permission and security in place, but too much shit relies on legacy code, so they keep it.