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Hey, at least Windows has really good backwards compatibility.
That is only maintained due to the new operating system being a new shell placed on top of the countless older shells and some new small features that rely on the newest most fragile thing they added with the shell
I heard some call it the "painting over rust" method, and they're maintaining the most used and by some organisations the most relied on operating system in the world