[cctalk] Re: Microsoft 50 years

That's a good point about the case-insensitive convention of Windows - yeah, I appreciate that aspect as well. My favorite experience with Microsoft was Windows XP and the included "Internet Backgammon." I'd come home, launch that, and get paired up with a random person within minutes. No chat, but you could "feel" how it was another person making their game-play choices (there was a very limited pre-selected chat option, taunts like "Better luck next time" and such). No popup ads. And it was a good rendition of Backgammon. As for the 32-bit to 64-bit transition- well, emulating a Win3.X, 9X, or XP 32-bit is fairly easy today. But if you mean a legacy device no longer functioned, yeah, devices under emulators is a hit or miss. But I think a lot of people overlook the "thunking' wizardry that Microsoft did to fairly seamlessly support both 32- and 64-bit runtimes (that WoW Windows on Windows subsystem stuff). Remember you can still CTRL-ALT-DEL, do Task Manager, and in the list of processes look for that "(32 bit)" after the name to see what is still actually a 32-bit app. It's sort of like lingering FastEthernet (100Mbit) nodes: get that legacy stuff off my system/network :| (I'm actually not really that particular, but it is interesting info). It's more disappointing to me that they dropped 16-bit support (no more InterSvr or QBasic, at least out-of-the-box). BTW main reason I like MS Paint is because of the Transparent Selection option, makes it easy to mosaic pictures together (and the Resize). Quick and simple, doesn't have to load in a ton of other DLLs for other features I won't need. Good for draft things, then CS6 for heavier stuff. -Steve On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM William Sudbrink via cctalk < cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: