[RayChuang88]

Windows 7--unlike Vista--will probably ditch a lot of legacy code in favor of faster operation. That means you can forget about running anything in Windows 95/98 emulation mode, which means true flat-memory model optimization to reduce code size.

[antiRepublicrat]

Windows 7--unlike Vista--will probably ditch a lot of legacy code in favor of faster operation.

I just read the latest -- no stripped, modular Windows 7 that finally ditches legacy. It will follow the XP pattern of building codebases, XP-W2K3-Vista is now Vista-W2K8-Win7.

[HAL9000]

Windows 7--unlike Vista--will probably ditch a lot of legacy code in favor of faster operation.

They make that claim about every version of Windows, but they will continue to rely on PC-DOS-era legacy code until they create a new operating system that isn't called "Windows".