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Originally Posted by shalym
Hmmm...I didn't realize that was an actual issue. I know that I was able to install some games that were made for Windows 95 onto my Windows 8 PC (one of them works better on Windows 8 than it did on XP, actually) Can you give me an example of some programs that won't work on Windows 8 but did work on XP?
Shari
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Originally Posted by BWinmill
I can't think of any particular titles off of the top of my head, but a lot of Windows 95 era software developed for the education market had trouble with Windows Vista. Those issues would carry into Windows 7 and 8. Microsoft also removed support for Windows 3.x era software in 64 bit versions of Windows, which turns out to be an issue with a few Windows 95 applications as well (which periodically shipped with Windows 3.x era components).
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Anything built with a 16-bit compiler, which includes any software that would run in Windows 3.1, won't run on 64-bit Vista or later. I've got an ancient copy of Civilization that won't run in recent versions of Windows.
There's enough business software that fits the bill that Microsoft offers downloads of
"XP Mode", which is an XP hard drive image that runs in a virtual machine.