New patch

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QXel said:
But I highly doubt that Microsoft release a patch which ruins 70-90% of the games !!!

I wouldn't accuse M$ of _intentionally_ breaking things during their release cycles, although there usually is a long list of things that don't work anymore when they release something new. There is a lot of software for them, too, though.

I'd rather accuse M$ of bogging down their code trying to keep things from failing too much. I read this hilarious blog entry from a tech guy working at M$ a while ago where he described two cases requiring them to come up with workarounds to keep software running on Windows from crashing, which seems what they're doing for a job, more or less. If I remember right, the gist of it was that the devs at a specific unnamed big company (my guess is Borland) came up with an unorthodox workaround to get a window instance or something like that, like poking around the stack for that. A probable reason given in the comments was that this might have to do with having to work with closed source themselves. So the M$ guys had to debug the other's software, find out WHY it crashed, then understand WHAT they were trying to do, then include a workaround in Windows so that the program would continue to work instead of crashing. And then ***** about it online. Ahh, what a wonderful world.