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I'd argue that of any software project on the planet, Windows is the closest to having unlimited resources; especially when you consider the number of Windows c

I'd argue that of any software project on the planet, Windows is the closest to having unlimited resources; especially when you consider the number of Windows customers for whom backwards compatibility is the #1 feature on the box. And speed isn't the only metric that matters; having both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of DLLs uses a non-trivial (to some people) amount of disk space, bandwidth, complexity, etc.

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
Surely, Apple and Google have just about as many resources as Microsoft does. If Android, Mac OS, etc were super slimmed down systems in comparison to Windows, I would understand the argument much better. Instead, it feels like we're in the worst of both worlds.