Re: Regressions
I haven't [...] worked with Windows for decades
- and yet you are prepared to write a 275-word treatise on how bad it was back in the day.
Windows is a huge, complex, system
Yes it is
[...]based on an immense, mostly undocumented database
Oh no it's not. Unless you work at Microsoft, how can you possibly make such a wild assertion?
Windows has been completely re-written (twice, AFAIK) since 3.11. Yes by that time it was patches on top of patches and there were many secret features but since then the use of undocumented calls has been fairly ruthlessly eliminated.
More importantly, "undocumented" in your post appears to refer to *internally* but that is not possible - a development environment the size of Windows' could not get anything out the door without internal documentation.
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