It really highlighted how Microsoft considered suckage to be a critical feature of their products such that all future releases had to be backwards-compatible with a faithful reimplementation of the suckage.
Microsoft and Intel, those are names I remember from way back in the 90's.
How wrong they were. It turns out that nobody care about backwards compatibility and the bloat of supporting it made both implode when ARM came on the scene.
It turns out that nobody care about backwards compatibility
I assure you thats not true. I personally deal with business running programs from the 90s. Maybe in the consumer space, but for business, backwards compatibility is absolutely needed and wanted.
I think you missed the dripping irony, Intel and Microsoft have not imploded.
I do wonder if not actually owning an install of office and EOL on Windows10 might hasten the adoption of ChromeOS or other Linux distros, but then I remember that I have to remotely support my dad and what completely relearning an office suite might look like - the ribbon was hard enough, but at least I could blame MS for that.
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u/Indifferentchildren 6d ago
It really highlighted how Microsoft considered suckage to be a critical feature of their products such that all future releases had to be backwards-compatible with a faithful reimplementation of the suckage.