Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of...
by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:01PM
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Unfortunately for Microsoft, condumers are as wedded to legacy apps as enterprise customers are. A lot of Steam's library immediately vanishes if you lose 32-bit support for example.
Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of...
by anankaie on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:05PM
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> ultra-slow ‘Enterprise’ ring and a move-fast (think about the speed of macOS changes) ‘consumer’ ring
They do: Long-term Servicing Channel releases: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/l...
There are a lot of baffling decisions by Microsoft’s Windows division, but their extreme dedication towards backward compatibility is nothing short of Herculean.
Sometimes I wish they’d split up Windows in an ultra-slow ‘Enterprise’ ring and a move-fast (think about the speed of macOS changes) ‘consumer’ ring, where they could drop much of the legacy cruft in trade for speedy/forced improvements. Think macOS going fully 64 bit, making the system image immutable, etc.
Hell, imagine if they’d allowed the Xbox One, X and S to run Windows 11 in S mode. Instant cheap performant computer for the layperson! And with it running S mode, they’d make their money through the Microsoft Store.