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If it's so easy to port a C++ program to Windows 95, why are people currently only supporting Windows 10 and newer? It feels like it would be an amazing idea to have your software running on old hardware if it can. Is everyone just lazy or think there aren't people who are still on XP to this day?
>inb4 nobody uses old hardware!!1!
Current RAM prices will only go higher.
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Also with enough effort even Windows 3.11 support isn't a problem.
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Windows 95 lost almost all hardware support by like 2000. There's nothing running Windows 95 on metal that could run any modern intense programs. It's like trying to port Boeing 737 software to a Ford Focus, even if you could get it to work what's the point?
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Midex
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>>108894403
I was using the ease of porting stuff to Windows 95 as an example, I was asking why are people willing to support ONLY Windows 10/11.
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Anonymous
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>>108894415
Because developers are lazy, jeeted, and rely on libraries.
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Anonymous
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>>108894369 (OP)
Its not so simple. The windows api has holes, missing functionality. Each version of windows they drip feed a handful of useful features that are impossible to implement yourself. As such once a programmer gets used to these new features, the architecture of their applications grows around said new features and there is basically no way to port the application back, not without massive reworking.

And you might accuse programmers of being lazy. But its not. Programmers don't comprehend how they lived without these features, and have no idea how to implement the same functionality without them.
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