Re:Introducing Surface Book 2
by pier25 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:48PM
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I agree, Windows is much better at backwards compatibility.
OTOH I've found that it's not such a big deal in practice. In my 10+ years as a mac user I've only hit this problem a couple of times. Likewise in Windows I rarely open old outdated software.
That is of course my anecdotal and personal experience.
Re:Introducing Surface Book 2
by nathansoz on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:28PM
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It's not a big deal for consumers. It's a huge deal for STEM departments in universities (a software upgrade for a hundred-thousand dollar machine can sometimes be thousands of dollars).
OTOH I've found that it's not such a big deal in practice. In my 10+ years as a mac user I've only hit this problem a couple of times. Likewise in Windows I rarely open old outdated software.
That is of course my anecdotal and personal experience.