• kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    in fairness to them microsoft takes their backwards compatibility seriously to the point where i’d absolutely see them keeping their old implementation hidden somewhere and hot-swapping it in when they detect an old program that needs some inexplicable internal access to some C struct being launched.

    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is true, that could be the case based off previous observations buuuut considering they’re doing this for security purposes, I think it make little sense to leave them behind