I was surprised to see ATL/MFC received security updates such as Spectre mitigation. So there is still some support for these 30 year old components.

That’s only because half office hangs off it. If it didn’t they wouldn’t have just left it.

Which so much better tooling than XAML C++ with C++/WinRT, it is a tragedy.

It’s in there because it’s a cockroach. It is throughly abandoned though, frozen in time.

You can observe this looking at the state of old outlook.

The state is wonderful, versus the new kind of Electron junk.