… seems to be the motto of Microsoft.
How else can you explain that a recent update of Windows 7 and Windows 10, that broke older versions of one of our programs (no idea yet what exactly is the problem, but the error code indicates an out of memory error) has different effects.
Windows 7 shows a dialog that the program could not be started and even gives some additional information. But that’s not good enough, the user could be irritated by telling him a program has crashed. So Windows 10 goes a step further and simply does … nothing. The program starts (as you can verify in the task manager), but nothing appears on the screen.
If you have administrator privileges, you can look into the event log (If you know how to do that). If you haven’t or don’t know how to, you are lost.
<sarcasm>Great feature, guys!</sarcasm>