Visual Studio 6 C++ running in Windows 8.1

Question

MSDEV.exe (Visual Studio C++ 6.0) crash in windows 8.1. Renaming to MSDEV2.exe and work perfectly

Reasons?

Answer 1

Reasons?

VC++6 is pushing two decades old, first used against Windows NT 4: 6 versions ago. That it can run at all is a surprise.

With details of the crash (eg. a stack dump) any more would be a pure guess.