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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (www.neowin.net)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

On the flip side, this is what makes Windows generally very good at backwards compatibility. They do update the codebase for stuff, but still generally very backwards compatible with software and games designed to run on previous versions of Windows.

Fun Fact: Backwards compatibility is the reason you can't name a file or folder CON.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that makes sense. If it's starting to bite them in the butt, though, maybe they should start relegating that stuff to emulation, if they can write a good enough emulator.

I don't know when. Maybe it's already gone by, maybe it's in the future. But there's probably a point in time when all of that backward compatibility stops being worth it.