>try to run a 16-bit application in 64-bit Windows 7 >"Unsupported

>>60502092
If you have a 16-bit application, there's really nothing you can do anyway. Confusing the less technically-inclined serves no purpose.

>>60502123
Yes there is. I can run it in DOSBox or in a virtual machine. But for the person who doesn't know it's a 16-bit application, they would have zero information to let them know the problem.

>try to run a 16-bit windows application in 64-bit Linux
>it works

> 16-bit application

kys

>>60502092
>Does the first error message make Windows any less user-friendly?

Too many words,people don't like messages longer than a tweet.

>>60502762
O-M-G you are soooo right

I wish everyone was as enlightened as you or the faggots on /g/

Yeah dude it's called light weight.
Do you know how many bytes Microsoft can save by trimming down that string???

>>60502729
This
DOS games play amazing on GNU/Linux

>>60502092
>XP
>[u]My[/u] Computer

>Win7
>Computer

>Win10
>[u]This[/u] PC

>>60502092
It literally says the same thing in less verbiage

>>60502092
Then install the 32 bit version of Windows and stop whining.

>>60502801
its probably still there for compatibility reasons anyway

>>60502982
>it's just an error description without the description
something happened

>>60502982
One says the problem is with the OS. The other tells it's the architecture.

Yeah, totally the same.

>>60502729
Wine? Or some other shit?

>>60503561
yep
unlike windows, the NTVDM implementation in Wine is available to use in 64bit Linux
(NTVDM being the system in 32bit windows NT that runs 16bit windows and DOS applications, which was removed in 64bit windows)

>>60503023
I'm not whining about that. I'm whining about Microsoft hiding any information from the user.

>>60502729
Yep. Literally every old program Windows had and has runs better in wine than new windows os's

>>60502092
>Windows is for tech illiterates
>OP is shocked by this
install gentoo

>>60502092
32-bit Windows 7 runs 16-bit programs.