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it exploits libraries that have existed in Windows since NT

I use uTorrent on my mac.

I am specifically referencing the original PC version. There's a whole other library in the code dedicated to the mac platform implementation, as well as Linux. The reason uTorrent on Windows started small was because it didn't include much of any static linkages, but this depended on dynamically linking some libraries in Windows that Microsoft never removed. This is the dedication to backwards-compatibility I refer to.

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