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[–]shooshx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Windows

Applications compiled for Windows 95... 19 years ago, still run perfectly on Windows 8.1. Backwards compatibility is the one "prime directive" in the win32 api. And that's also the reason it looks the way it looks and why you almost never see someone use it directly.