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A Guessing Game (lemmy.zip)

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[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Well this was Vista era, they were probably doing that to ensure some sort of expectation from particularly tricky legacy apps. Windows prefers not to break old apps if at all possible.