01-11-2013, 05:04 PM
silvarios wrote:
Reminds me of WIndows versus Mac. People managed to use Windows XP for so long because apps still targeted XP users, but on the Mac, many apps would require the most recent or two version of OS X. Different dynamics, one of them is good for forcing upgrades against your own possible preferences.
That's some amazing pro M$ spin there Nathan. The real reason for the "different dynamic" is because Microsoft couldn't get its act together to produce a halfway decent operating system, but kept aborting new OS projects until it finally managed to release the stillborn Vista which everybody then refused to buy. It's got nothing to do with one company being good at forcing upgrades against personal preferences but everything to do with M$'s incompetence (talking of which, have you ever tried to deal with M$'s 64-bit/32-bit Windows mess, or their disastrous .NET transition? Dealing with proprietary software on recent versions of Windows is a friggin' nightmare!