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Re:Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too mu... by zik on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @11:50PM (#37593022)
A friend who worked at MS tells me that there's a huge amount of "if version" in their code. Apparently it's at the level where it's a big maintenance headache.
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Re:Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too mu... by somsak2 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:13AM (#37593454)
maintenance burden has to be felt somewhere. it's nice when the vendor does it for you.
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Re:Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too mu... by rcme on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:49AM (#37594029)
Maybe for a while. But when you add the maintenance burden to the code, it stays there, forever being felt. Over time, this degrades the product for everyone. And indeed, Windows can be unpleasant to use, not least of all because it feels like glued together legacy systems.
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Re:Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too mu... by spondyl on Thursday September 21, 2023 @03:26AM (#37594292)
A running theory was that Windows 9 was skipped because of all the "if version contains 9" logic for 95, 98 etc

I don't think it was ever anything more than speculation though

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Re:Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too mu... by noirscape on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:15AM (#37594683)
IIRC it was partially confirmed when some Windows 11 beta builds started causing issues with software thinking it was being executed on 1.1.x (whose identifier internally apparently is 11).
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Re:Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too mu... by yakubin on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:19AM (#37594709)
It was about code in third-party apps, not in Windows code.
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