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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
NVIDIA
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Mark Russinovich
Jensen Huang
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Win32
Windows 11
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Windows 11
Win32
Legacy code
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Operating system
Software evolution
Technology legacy
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Windows API
Tech transformation
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News Summary
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...
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