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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (www.neowin.net)
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[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

On the flip side, this is what makes Windows generally very good at backwards compatibility. They do update the codebase for stuff, but still generally very backwards compatible with software and games designed to run on previous versions of Windows.

Fun Fact: Backwards compatibility is the reason you can't name a file or folder CON.