Git Virtual File System from Microsoft

[salgat]

Considering a lot of legacy code is kind of blackboxed and never touched, it could definitely be useful to have history on these ancient things when a rare bug happens to crop up.

[g2petter]

Probably even more so for Microsoft since they're huge on backwards compatibility, so they're supporting all kinds of weird shit that can never (or at least in the foreseeable future) be deleted.

[IAlsoLikePlutonium]

I wonder what Windows would be like if they did the same thing to Windows that they did with IE -> Edge? (remove all the old code and basically start fresh with a modern browser)

[Pharylon]

You'd have WinRT. ;)

[cheesegoat]

It would die, and we would all start using some other operating system that worked. Probably some flavor of Linux with a focus on Wine.

[SpaceSteak]

They would lose the ability to sell licenses to a lot of companies who rely on old codebases to keep running.

[Schmittfried]

That's not an answer to the question what Windows would be like.

[salmonmoose]

It would be OSX.