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Yes! Today is a good day to reread Phil Haack’s 2014 essay on the lengths MS goes to for backwards compatibility: https://haacked.com/archive/2014/05/27/backwards-compatibili...

Edit: Haack heavily cites Raymond Chen from 2003: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42...

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On the flip side, supporting all that backward compatibility has been a massive anchor on Microsoft's ability to move Windows forward from decisions made in the past.

Yeah Microsoft is a like King John signing the Magna Carta to keep the thrown. Apple is like Louis XIV.

I believe you mean throne.

Still, as developer on the JVM I find the concept of a "Game of throwns" exceptional.

Ahah, "Game of throwns". Can only imagine the disaster :D

Be sure to catch every episode.

And optionally rethrow.

Oops!

And of course Sinofsky from this summer.

https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-stra...

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