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		hulitu 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died bef... > Windows jumping through hoops to support backwards compatibility even with buggy software This was, maybe, true some 10 years ago. Now even old Windows programs (paint,wordpad) do not run on newer Windows > The interest of the customer is that the software runs Yes, but testing is expensive and we are Agile. /s

pixl97 5 months ago [–]

>Now even old Windows programs (paint,wordpad) do not run on newer Windows

Eh, that's a really weird example as those are components of the operating system that are replaced with the OS upgrade.

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