I like to use Win32, even in the age of .Net, MFC and touch. My co-worker said to me that it might not be possible to use the Win32 API in future versions of Windows (After Windows 9 ), because Microsoft might deprecate it.
However, this seems impossible to me, because windows itself uses so much of that API. If they got rid of the low level Win32 C library, the operating system would itself stop working, and they would have to recode a great portion of the Operating System (Not to mention all the code that would be broken).
Anyway, I don't know much about this stuff, does anyone have any technical understanding on if this is impossible or not?
Also, note that I'm not asking if windows will deprecate the low level API in the future, I know that's speculative. My specific question regards how feasible it would be for Microsoft to do this, assuming they wanted to.