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vardump on May 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virt...

"MS often introduces breaking changes in the Windows API"

Can you give an example? I have also plenty of Windows development experience, but can't think of anything. More like, Microsoft seems to be pretty careful making sure APIs don't break.

NTAPI doesn't count, because it's undocumented in the first place and you're not supposed to use it in the userland at all. Yeah, we all do, but...

(Many APIs are pretty bad in the first place, but that's another matter.)

account42 on May 11, 2023 [–]

> NTAPI doesn't count, because it's undocumented in the first place and you're not supposed to use it in the userland at all. Yeah, we all do, but...

In the context of developing something like Wine that is irrelevant - you need to deal with what people use.

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