The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP

Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by darkwater on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:52AM (#21451892)

But AFAIK it's only thanks to European Union and pressure from various groups that we can open MS Office formats on other platforms and programs, no strings attached. Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by lima on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:09AM (#21451987)

The antitrust case helped, but it's only thanks to massive reverse engineer efforts by open source developers that this kind of compatibility exists. Even when you have the specs, it's a massive effort to re-implement.

> Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense.

It makes perfect sense from the company's point of view.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by darkwater on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:59AM (#21453513)

>> Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense.

> It makes perfect sense from the company's point of view.

Yeah, for sure, but I was criticizing OP that was praising MS for still being compatible with their own 20+ years old proprietary and hegemonic document format.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by gmueckl on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:06AM (#21452979)

Well, it was kind of the old way of inplementing a subscription based business model: want to stay compatible with the rest of the world? Pay up!

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by rubber_duck on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:54AM (#21451905)

I think in the era of cloud and web this was bound to happen anyway due to market pressure, similar how Windows/Azure embraced Linux

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by fortran77 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:23AM (#21452103)

Why doesn't the EU pressure Apple to make sure the Apple Write and Apple Pages, etc, still work?!

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by darkwater on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:58AM (#21453493)

I was talking about opening the dominating document formats at the time. Apple didn't dominate that market at all.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by ghego1 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:53AM (#21460771)

And still doesn't

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