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    11 hours ago

    That’s not what I asked. You said you wanted Valve to hire people to support Windows 98. What company still supports Windows 98 like that?

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      8 hours ago

      Lots. Do you know how much corporate software is still of that vintage?

      Literally like half of AutoCAD’s products still use the graphics and windowing APIs from that era as one example. The WinForms API are clunky by modern standards but also relatively trivial for a programmer to pick up and code with.

      I mean, there is still an industry of Cobol engineers maintaining mainframe code for banks from the 80s.

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        8 hours ago

        I am aware that some corporate infrastructure is hopelessly tangled up in legacy systems. But we are talking about consumer support here, which I know you know is very different.

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          7 hours ago

          No, it’s not. Autodesk sells that software to consumers and corporations literally every single day.

          Try and code a WinForms app, follow any tutorial you can, and notice that it’s very possible and not that onerous.

          People these days just accept the shit tech companies feed them because they’re using to eating shit from them.

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        8 hours ago

        I mean, there is still an industry of Cobol engineers maintaining mainframe code for banks from the 80s.

        my gramps, that’s not the beacon of good business practice you think it is 🤣

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          7 hours ago

          The question at hand is whether or not there are enough engineers to feasibly support Windows 98. Try and work on your reading comprehension.