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Microsoft cross-platform

Posted Aug 21, 2012 13:39 UTC (Tue) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar by tialaramex
Parent article: Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

Actually means your old Windows software will run on your new Windows.

Which may be true for stuff MS wrote, but I have problems running WordPerfect on XP, and on 7 it won't even think of installing!

Cheers,
Wol

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Microsoft cross-platform

Posted Aug 22, 2012 12:09 UTC (Wed) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

It's not. A MSFT written game (forgot details) for Win98 which exactly met WinNT 4.0's specifications wouldn't make it past its splash screen.

Microsoft cross-platform

Posted Aug 22, 2012 15:01 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

IIRC, DirectX on NT 4 never made it past version 2, so it's not surprising that a game written by MS (and hence one that probably relied on the latest DirectX) wouldn't work.