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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6691811" data-attributes="member: 8835">That's likely one of the problems WIndows has, all that backward compatibility means carrying bloat so all the old kernel32 and HAL calls still work, etc.  Heck, there was a demo where MS ran Office95 on a Windows10 machine just to prove it could be done.As I understood it, back when the Mac's OSX came out, they dropped all compatibility with previous versions of software.  Partly because Apple changed processors from Motorola to Intel (so I recall), but with the side effect of they could rewrite their OS from the ground up (and it was, it was Unix based, where the old one was whatever they cobbled together back in 1983).Windows10 might have benefited further from a radical dropping of "everything but our current API".  Perhaps using a virtual machine model for the legacy support (not as a full VM with Windows 7 desktop, just a backed handling of the code and the Window of the application running).  This kind of trickery is doable with Remote Desktop services as well, where instead of remoting in to see the desktop of the other machine, you see just the window for the app you are running, which is really running on the other host.</blockquote>