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> anti competitive practices from Windows

You would more likely be amazed by all the dumb hacks in the system for backward compatibility, mostly for other companies' software.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050824-11/?p=34...

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It seems dumb and it is dumb, but it’s also an important feature of Windows that your terrible app from the 90s can still run today with minor changes generally. Less so if it’s win16 but anything win32 is good to go.

Also, Linux has a similar philosophy as Linus has eloquently described in the past. [1]

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

> It seems dumb and it is dumb, but it’s also an important feature of Windows that your terrible app from the 90s can still run today with minor changes generally.

This is a myth which is mostly not true from some time.

Can you explain how it’s not true? I’ve personally run software from the 90s. I am not a myth!

Windows 11 killed NTVDM and 16 bit support.

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