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]
> 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.
Also, Linux has a similar philosophy as Linus has eloquently described in the past. [1]
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75