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Windows is great except when it does something unpredictable. It will be amazing for months at a time before it decides it's update time.

But they get a lot of things right, like their backwards compatibility via statically linked packages and a large "standard library".

Unfortunately it's all proprietary and doesn't work if you can't live with the random updates, or if you need to support small cheap embedded things well...




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