Why does old software get buggy when it hasn’t been updated for a while? Shouldn’t have the same amount of bugs as it was when that version was released?

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Why does old software get buggy when it hasn’t been updated for a while? Shouldn’t have the same amount of bugs as it was when that version was released?

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It’s not that the software itself gets more buggy, it’s that compatibility with the libraries and the operating system is lost, so things little incompatibilities might result in small bugs.

One of my favorite examples is that some games used the PC clock speed for the game speed. So modern faster cous result in a game that is unplayable because it’s so fast.

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