These are the kinds of decisions that can be frustrating when the software you use depends on the kind of company that made it. Had Microsoft been split up bac

These are the kinds of decisions that can be frustrating when the software you use depends on the kind of company that made it. Had Microsoft been split up back in the day into an applications-only company, would that hypothetical company have made the same call? In my experience software companies like to support several OS versions because things don’t change that much.