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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
But I can still run pretty much any app that works on Windows 3.1 beyond on Windows 8, which is my point. They needed to completely ditch the backwards compatibility which makes Windows prone to security issues in the first place. The fact that Windows Mobile and Windows Phone use Windows Embedded instead of just Windows makes them much more secured.
WinRT will be ditching that old framework, but the versions that run on Intel won't.
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It's called emulation or WoW (windows on windows) and, now, i guess, windows embedded. I'm a fan. Backwards compatability in any form preserves the value of my software library.
To make these more secure, simply run in a sandbox/vm and isolate from the rest of the system.