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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The machine I got (a netbook) had 64 bit Windows 7 installed. There was no reason not to install the 32 and 16 bit emulator, except that Microsoft was trying to <force> people to abandon their old software and buy new software (from Microsoft). Oracle's Virtual Box proved that.
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I think it's more of a case of Microsoft not wanting to maintain the old compatibility layer, and wanting to charge extra for their virtualization products.
I am a bit surprised that anyone would run 16-bit Windows applications though (well, outside of very specialized applications). Windows software of that era was barely tolerable. Mac software of that era, well that's a different story. I was quite good and I can understand people running it until this day.
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Computers come and go - but software will run as long as something can execute the instruction set.
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How true. I used to do a lot via emulation, but pretty much gave up on it when open source applications started dominating my life. Price is a huge deterrent to upgrading, but once the price is gone keeping modern is easy enough. Still, I miss a lot of that old software.