Recent content by mussan

Dropping the support for legacy Win7/XP apps already in Win8 would have been a suicide of course, just like dropping support for MS-DOS games in Win95 would have been. Naturally Microsoft will offer backwards compatibility for awhile, as long as it takes for them to migrate the users from MS-DOS...

Microsoft dropping legacy support away at some point is not the issue at all. You couldn't officially run most of MS-DOS games anymore in Win2000/XP, or you can't run 16bit Windows apps in 64bit Vistas or Win7s either. That was just to be expected, MS or any company for that matter will offer...

Yes you can still install and use legacy Win7/XP desktop software in Win8. Just like you could still run MS-DOS and Win16 games and apps in Windows 95. But can you still in Win9? Win10? You couldn't officially run MS-DOS games anymore in Windows XP. None of this would really matter if only...

Did you even read the article at all? You being able to run Win32 games and apps in Windows 8 is about as relevant as you being able to run MS-DOS games in Win95. You certainly could do that, but it was in no way a guarantee that Microsoft will officially support running of MS-DOS apps/games...