Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems

Re:Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems by Pxtl on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:11AM (#6855120)

What I'm hearing is that the massive break between WP7 and WP8 won't be the last of its kind - the inevitable consolidation of WinRT and WP8 into a new OS will require deep-enough changes that I doubt we'll see the OS released on our existing devices.

I'm also disappointed to hear how much legacy code lives in the Win8RT/WP8 platforms - I thought they were supposed to be a clean break.

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Re:Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems by m_mueller on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:53AM (#6855408)

I'm sure it will go over well with customers and developers when their devices / code once again won't run anymore with the Windows 9 OSes. I doubt MS would be as big if they'd made this mistake back in the Windows 2 through 4 days. Once the upgrade situation is worse than on Android you know they're in trouble.

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Re:Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems by Pxtl on Thursday December 05, 2013 @12:11PM (#6855548)

I'd assume all the Windows RT + .NET Compact code would be just fine, it's more the physical devices that would be the worry.

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