Re: [NF][RANT] I need to stop playing 20 questions...

At 06:40 2016-02-23, Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote:

There are no technical reasons why I shouldn't

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have been allowed to continue to run Office 97 on Windows 7

Endless backward compatibility is unrealistic and there is a point where providing some aspect of it costs a company more than it's worth in user retention. Should Microsoft or anyone else really have to deal with all the heartache of enabling and supporting 16-bit software on a 64-bit OS at this point in time, especially when there are solutions like virtualisation and containers? Windows does a better job than almost anything bar certain big-iron mainframe operating systems in this respect.