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		emodendroket on April 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows 11 Trash Party Why on earth would they do this and piss away their huge BC advantage?

tcmart14 on April 19, 2023 | [–]

Just open up to the WINE project. My understanding is, when you run a Windows 95 program on Windows 11, it essentially fires up an emulator anyways. WINE with the resources could very well offer the replacement at really no cost to Microsoft.

arcanemachiner on April 18, 2023 | [–]

I'm assuming BC stands for backwards compatibility?

emodendroket on April 18, 2023 | [–]

Yes.

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