Why Windows 11 Still Ships with Windows 95's Memory Manager Inside
khalidkhair · hn · 2026-10-20
Windows Latest reports that Windows 11 still ships with memory-manager code dating back to Windows 95. The piece traces why the legacy component has survived nearly three decades of OS releases, touching on backward compatibility, app dependencies and Microsoft's engineering trade-offs.
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