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Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11

tomshardware.com 2026-05-08 Mark Tyson
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Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer, Mark Russinovich, recently admitted on social media that Windows 11 still relies heavily on legacy code from the 1990s, particularly the Win32 API. This candid ac... Read original →
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