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userbinator on Nov 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows ...

Or applications written for Windows NT that still work - unmodified! - on Windows 10 thanks to layers of compatibility hacks.

I'd call that more "stable API" than anything else --- Win32 is Win32, and while they've added functionality over the years, the basic stuff remains the same.

lima on Nov 5, 2019 [–]

It's not just the formal API - features like UAC and high DPI scaling require emulation layers. And there's more to the OS than just Win32.

anticensor on Nov 5, 2019 | [–]

UAC's compatibility workaround is privilege exemption, not emulation. It is not like TrustedInstaller was suddenly introduced in Windows 6.

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