It has never⦠donâ(TM)t know why it ate my apostrophe.

Microsoft had/has an app store. Itâ(TM)s never gotten developer or customer traction.

Applications written directly using APIs on the platform theyâ(TM)re running on (Windows, macOS, Linux, etc. this is in contrast to progressive web apps (PWAs) or platforms like Electron, which are intended to be more portable, but donâ(TM)t âoefeelâ like the platform theyâ(TM)re running on, even if they hook into platform-specific APIs too.

Should we call stored procedures people? Should we call DLL's people? Should we call Visual Basic applications people? Should we call all the icons on your iPhone people? Seriously. He should be publicly shamed forever for ever making such a ridiculous statement.

Windows has supported USB in the loader since Vista. It was necessary for USB boot, which was first added - partially - in XP. Windows PE (which underlies RE) has supported USB peripherals from its inception. Just no PnP initially.

Seattle's Cinerama - now "SIFF Downtown", is one of my favorite screens...

He was wrong too.

for copyright infringement.

First, as the other comment said - On2 wasn't bought for products. It was bought for technology and people. Google's motives should be clear with the WebM open source version of On2's VP8 codec. Second, you're trivializing the cost and complexity required to keep a product alive and supported. It's not just leaving a product in the channel to blossom. It has to be supported, patched, and updated - and the products sold by On2 were not logical for Google to continue selling as they were - but the technology and people from On2 are hardly going to waste at Google.

Very few applications written today can actually take advantage of that much RAM. For an enterprise, unless you're doing INTENSE CAD/CAM/CAE, rendering, or stat analysis, it doesn't make sense to force to x64.

ISV uptake for XP x64 was ridiculously low. Very few companies wrote apps that can run well on it and still take advantage of it, and it has a pretty significant driver gap. If you're migrating to XP x64 right now, you might as well go to Win7 x64. At least there you will have apps and drivers.

"even if all it required was minimal effort to cross compile and test"... Seriously? It ain't that easy.

They did stop keeping them.

Dear lord, I can't imagine having to ensure builds would still compile for all of the dead architectures.

You're dead in the water already. Users don't read dialogs. End of story. Where else in life besides the computer do humans get interstitial errors that pop up and disrupt what they're doing? Not in the car. Not on the phone. Not reading a book. Error dialogs shouldn't be treated as a problem you have with end users. They should be treated as a problem you have with developers. An inordinate amount of the time, users are presented with dialogs for problems that the software itself could and should resolve, and more importantly, the user can't resolve.