> This has nothing to do with "whoever is running Windows development these days"
> Microsoft saw the opportunity to kill at least one backward compatibility burden by not even trying to support 16-bit for x64.
These two statements are at odds. Microsoft used to take compatibility extremely seriously. It would have been relatively trivial to allow 16-bit applications to run, and obviously there is desire to do so since WineVDM exists, they just arbitrarily decided not to.
I suspect this is because they've become infected with developers who use Linux a lot and think nothing of breaking compatibility every release, let alone in cases like this.
Don't believe I said otherwise.
> This has nothing to do with "whoever is running Windows development these days"
> Microsoft saw the opportunity to kill at least one backward compatibility burden by not even trying to support 16-bit for x64.
These two statements are at odds. Microsoft used to take compatibility extremely seriously. It would have been relatively trivial to allow 16-bit applications to run, and obviously there is desire to do so since WineVDM exists, they just arbitrarily decided not to.
I suspect this is because they've become infected with developers who use Linux a lot and think nothing of breaking compatibility every release, let alone in cases like this.