On the other hand, all of this weight has to go somewhere and that’s a pretty large part of why even fresh Windows installs have such a significant footprint.
In a business setting that is absolutely crucial, particularly given that there are so many companies in the world using software and databases that were written 15-20 years ago. On the one hand, the extreme level of backward compatibility is pretty great - it’s very rare that software stops working just because you upgrade Windows.
