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> 64-bit Windows has never supported 16-bit.

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.




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