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10 very old apps that still (somehow) work on Windows 10

Introduction Perhaps it is a testament to Microsoft’s legacy that some popular applications that date from the late 1990s can still run on its latest OS, Windows 10. The operating system, which will launch on Wednesday 29 July, has already been tested (and been seen running) on some very, very old and very, very slow hardware. Many will describe such exercises as utterly futile, and those same people will likely

Manage, meddle or magnify? China's corporate debt threat

Beijing may have averted a crisis in its stock markets with heavy-handed intervention, but the world’s biggest corporate debt pile – $16.1 trillion and rising – is a much greater threat to its slowing economy and will not be so easily managed. Corporate China’s debts, at 160 percent of GDP, are twice that of the United States, having sharply deteriorated in the past five years, a Thomson Reuters study of