Original sentence: , used and depended on 16-Bit software, including the COMMAND.COM CLI interpreter for batch files, alienated Microsoft consumers now had an out; they could port XP to Apple using Parallels or VM Fusion and never buy a Microsoft PC again.Ironically, these converts would be forced to familiarize themselves with Mac to have backwards compatibility support.Since many small businesses, hobby programmers, old-guard programmers,.Whereas Windows XP included W.for MS products, incl.support (Windows-Bit-16 On Windows-Bit-32), MS announced that Vista 64-bit OS would not support 16-bit legacy software, meaning that a vast library of what would likely amount to many millions of 16-Bit programs,.the older MS operating systems.would suddenly cease to work on Windows machines