Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP
by belltaco on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:11PM
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The industry norm has been to leave things behind. And it worked really well for Apple, they make money hand over fist, and you see Macbooks being heavily used by even software developers. The market has spoken, it doesn't care too much about it. Microsoft being the exception is good reflection on them but they rarely credit for it, but get heavily criticized for every other small flaw, real or perceived.
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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:25AM
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You're kidding right? For one, Windows still enjoys a rather ridiculously huge lead on desktop computers. Who's second in that market? Well it was Mac not that long ago, with Linux in a distant third, though maybe that's changed now.
Mac actually took great pains to be backwards compatible until relatively recently. PPC's could run 68k programs, OSX could run tradition MacOS programs, and x86 macs could even run PPC programs.
And Linux Desktop can't run programs not in its repo unless you want to compile it from source.
So what does that tell us? Well, there at least appears to be a pretty strong correlation between compatibility and success with desktop OSs.