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> Guess MS is tired of supporting 30 years of hardware with each OS release. It seems they are supporting old hardware on each new OS. What they are not suppor

by quonn 10y ago

> Guess MS is tired of supporting 30 years of hardware with each OS release. It seems they are supporting old hardware on each new OS. What they are not supporting is new hardware on an old OS.

flamedoge 10y ago
I'm pretty sure new hardware can run old OS. It's just new features won't be utilized.
wvenable 10y ago
Yeah, that's forwards compatibility not backwards compatibility. In many cases, this situation is already here. My laptop came with Windows 8 and if I ran Windows 7 on it, it would work, but many of the newer power management and performance features wouldn't work.
- hiram112 10y ago
  Interestingly, I've been a hardcore Dell fan for many years with many tens of thousands of dollars in purchases - home and work. I bought an outlet Latitude two weeks ago. It came with Win 8 which is awful. It would not run Win 7, no matter how many tricks I tried (numerous driver issues). I do not want Win 10. The Dell is being returned, and I am buying my first ever personal MacBook (I'm done with Linux on the laptop, too - too busy these days to deal with the typical issues that have plagued Linux for 15 years now). I'm done with Microsoft and any company that wants to tie themselves to them: Dell, HP, Lenovo, Intel, etc.
  - godzillabrennus 10y ago
    You are not alone. You literally have to pay me to use a Microsoft Windows device and I'm not cheap. I was such a Windows fanboy in the late 90's early 2000's when Win2k and Win XP were the platforms that were shipping. Having lived through those days till now I'm convinced that Microsoft can never build a better user experience than Windows 2000 provided.
    - raesene9 10y ago
      Better is of course subjective, and I might suggest a hint of rose-tinted glasses there. I've been using Windows professionally since Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and whilst sure I miss some of the simplicity and cleanness of older versions, every time I actually have to use one of the old versions I'm constantly bumping into annoyances and missing features that I've gotten used to with Windows 10 One small but important, to me, example ie being able to resize command shell windows by dragging them! and easy copy/paste !
      - nitrogen 10y ago
        You don't have to use cmd.exe for your terminal. I used to use xterm via Cygwin back in the day.
  - wvenable 10y ago
    I'm running Windows 10 now (upgraded just before the deadline) and I quite like it. It only takes a bit of time to disable enough to make it look/act like a better version of Windows 7.

by quonn 10y ago

> Guess MS is tired of supporting 30 years of hardware with each OS release. It seems they are supporting old hardware on each new OS. What they are not supporting is new hardware on an old OS.

flamedoge 10y ago

I'm pretty sure new hardware can run old OS. It's just new features won't be utilized.

wvenable 10y ago

Yeah, that's forwards compatibility not backwards compatibility. In many cases, this situation is already here. My laptop came with Windows 8 and if I ran Windows 7 on it, it would work, but many of the newer power management and performance features wouldn't work.

hiram112 10y ago
Interestingly, I've been a hardcore Dell fan for many years with many tens of thousands of dollars in purchases - home and work. I bought an outlet Latitude two weeks ago. It came with Win 8 which is awful. It would not run Win 7, no matter how many tricks I tried (numerous driver issues). I do not want Win 10. The Dell is being returned, and I am buying my first ever personal MacBook (I'm done with Linux on the laptop, too - too busy these days to deal with the typical issues that have plagued Linux for 15 years now). I'm done with Microsoft and any company that wants to tie themselves to them: Dell, HP, Lenovo, Intel, etc.
- godzillabrennus 10y ago
  You are not alone. You literally have to pay me to use a Microsoft Windows device and I'm not cheap. I was such a Windows fanboy in the late 90's early 2000's when Win2k and Win XP were the platforms that were shipping. Having lived through those days till now I'm convinced that Microsoft can never build a better user experience than Windows 2000 provided.
  - raesene9 10y ago
    Better is of course subjective, and I might suggest a hint of rose-tinted glasses there. I've been using Windows professionally since Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and whilst sure I miss some of the simplicity and cleanness of older versions, every time I actually have to use one of the old versions I'm constantly bumping into annoyances and missing features that I've gotten used to with Windows 10 One small but important, to me, example ie being able to resize command shell windows by dragging them! and easy copy/paste !
    - nitrogen 10y ago
      You don't have to use cmd.exe for your terminal. I used to use xterm via Cygwin back in the day.
- wvenable 10y ago
  I'm running Windows 10 now (upgraded just before the deadline) and I quite like it. It only takes a bit of time to disable enough to make it look/act like a better version of Windows 7.