Why did Pinball "Pinball Stand" disappear after XP?

Unique game Pinball (Patchball) in the system after Windows XP, we never saw the figure of this small game, this small game was part of the Windows system, since Windows 95 is so . Why does Vista and other systems no longer pre-install Pinball?

Although there was a lot of speculation in the year, Microsoft never said anything. Today, on the Microsoft MSDN website, Microsoft finally solved this mystery.

A Microsoft technician said that his main task was to convert tens of thousands of software in Windows XP from 32-bit to 64-bit. However, there is a problem with the software, that is Pinball.

The 64-bit version of this game has a very serious problem. The marbles will pass through other objects like a ghost. After starting the game, the marbles will slowly fall to the bottom of the screen after starting from the launcher, pass through the plunger, and fall to the bottom of the table.

The Microsoft team tried to fix this problem, but the code for this game was written several years ago by another outsourcing company. Microsoft technicians didn't know how the code worked. Most of the code didn't even have comments. The technician could not find the conflict detection. , unable to know why the conflict detector does not work.

At that time, Microsoft was facing a huge workload. With millions of lines of code to migrate, there was really no time to spend a lot of time studying Pinball's problems. Therefore, it directly gave up on it.