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Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an
obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging
security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked
properly, all while maintaining compatibility with older software and
hardware — is there anything Windows doesn’t try to do? Painfully
visible are the inherent design deficiencies of a foundation that was
never intended to support such weight. Windows seems to move an inch
for every time that Mac OS X or Linux laps it.

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