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Microsoft are determined to reduce fragmentation of the Windows install base and to get Windows 10 widely adopted, and will do whatever it takes to get there.

Microsoft are determined to reduce fragmentation of the Windows install base and to get Windows 10 widely adopted, and will do whatever it takes to get there. Their customers have few alternatives, and there's no future Windows versions, so Microsoft don't have to play fair.

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Qantourisc 10y ago
There IS a simple solution, and it's not like they can stop providing updates for the old version anyway: just wait a few years !
makecheck 10y ago
I think there is a large and closing window of opportunity for new open-source advocacy in light of Windows 10. A very large number of people have been exposed to this: Windows 10 upgrades illustrate all the risks of leaving your infrastructure dependent on a single corporation. Messages could be broadcast pointing out how open-source systems might avoid or reduce these concerns.
anonymousab 10y ago
The sheer aggression and fervor suggests ulterior motivations. More so if you view them as a company that is normally less hostile (these days). Though I suspect these decisions are being made by a separate silo from the developer-friendly "new Microsoft" groups.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
  Why do they need an ulterior motive? They want a single, non-fragmented userbase running the latest software, so there's a simple platform for third-party developers and for Microsoft themselves. That's more than reason enough.
  - pdkl95 10y ago
    They can wish all they want for a unicorn; that doesn't mean they will get it. There will always be different versions of Windows in use (the same is true for browsers). Anybody that thinks that fragmentation will ever go away needs to spend some time in the real world, which doesn't conform to a nice and simple abstraction.
    - TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
      That was the case, but it won't be now. Microsoft are not making a Windows 11. Slowly, but surely, Windows 10 will win, and it is an evergreen operating system. Businesses get a special deal, they get to use the “current build for business”. But the future of Windows is like the versioning of Firefox and Chrome, not Internet Explorer.

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Qantourisc 10y ago

There IS a simple solution, and it's not like they can stop providing updates for the old version anyway: just wait a few years !

makecheck 10y ago

I think there is a large and closing window of opportunity for new open-source advocacy in light of Windows 10. A very large number of people have been exposed to this: Windows 10 upgrades illustrate all the risks of leaving your infrastructure dependent on a single corporation. Messages could be broadcast pointing out how open-source systems might avoid or reduce these concerns.

anonymousab 10y ago

The sheer aggression and fervor suggests ulterior motivations. More so if you view them as a company that is normally less hostile (these days). Though I suspect these decisions are being made by a separate silo from the developer-friendly "new Microsoft" groups.

TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
Why do they need an ulterior motive? They want a single, non-fragmented userbase running the latest software, so there's a simple platform for third-party developers and for Microsoft themselves. That's more than reason enough.
- pdkl95 10y ago
  They can wish all they want for a unicorn; that doesn't mean they will get it. There will always be different versions of Windows in use (the same is true for browsers). Anybody that thinks that fragmentation will ever go away needs to spend some time in the real world, which doesn't conform to a nice and simple abstraction.
  - TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
    That was the case, but it won't be now. Microsoft are not making a Windows 11. Slowly, but surely, Windows 10 will win, and it is an evergreen operating system. Businesses get a special deal, they get to use the “current build for business”. But the future of Windows is like the versioning of Firefox and Chrome, not Internet Explorer.