win32 compatibility

Microsoft’s Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said in a Microsoft Dev Docs video posted May 6, 2026, that Win32, the Windows API lineage associated with the Windows 95 and Windows NT era, remains a first-class foundation for Windows in 2026, including Windows 11. That is not quite the same as saying...

Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich said in May 2026 that Win32 remains the “bedrock” of Windows, acknowledging that nobody in the 1990s expected the 32-bit API surface associated with Windows 95 and Windows NT to remain first-class three decades later. That admission is less a nostalgia item than a...

Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich said in May 2026 that nobody at Microsoft in the 1990s expected Win32, the Windows API lineage associated with Windows 95 and Windows NT, to remain a first-class application surface in Windows 11. That admission is less embarrassing than it sounds and more damning...

Loss32 is a deliberately provocative thought experiment: what if a Linux distribution were not merely capable of running Windows programs, but was built from the ground up to be a Win32 runtime with the Linux kernel as its substrate? The idea — sketched by a developer who goes by the handle...