Application compatibility layers are there for the customer, not for the program
Some time ago,
a customer asked this curious question (paraphrased, as always): Hi,
we have a program that was originally designed for Windows XP
and Windows Server 2003,
but we found that it runs into difficulties on Windows Vista.
We've...
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