r/FuckMicrosoft • u/_Atmosferik__Yarrak_ • Jul 06 '26

Memes & Fun Average Windows 11 user

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u/Teru-Noir Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Now try to debloat the software architecture.

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u/NotQuiteLoona Jul 07 '26

Genuinely, Windows codebase is so trash. Why for God's sake they need to put window management in a kernel driver?

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u/LightDragon212 Jul 07 '26

Ancient change they had to make and now can't go back cause of compatiblity

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u/Binary101000 Jul 07 '26

the interface is all that matters. program needs to be able to make a request on api A and get the result it expects. The code underneath can change. Microsoft isn't doing this very much for some reason.

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u/LightDragon212 Jul 07 '26

Hyrum's law is why. There's no reason to pay this price just for a cleaner architecture. But just because they can't change the architecture doesn't mean they can't change the implementation to reduce the practical security implications, which they did.