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Funny enough, there is another issue with exactly this on another thread on the front page right now — Mac OS Catalina, which got released today, is killing the
by rolleiflex 7y ago
Funny enough, there is another issue with exactly this on another thread on the front page right now — Mac OS Catalina, which got released today, is killing the last remaining perpetual Adobe CS6 licenses available.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184387
Bad day for Adobe. Or a good one? I'm not sure, but definitely an interesting one.
- cableshaft 7y agoGood thing Microsoft is big on backwards compatibility. Hopefully CS6 will keep working on PCs for awhile longer. Sucks about Mac, though.
- taneq 7y ago> Good thing Microsoft is big on backwards compatibility. Well, was. They're pushing pretty hard on this evergreen "windows-as-a-service" thing.
- Crinus 7y agoThis is just a different deployment and pricing scheme, you still get the same OS with same backwards compatibility. Besides i do not see how they could do a "windows-as-a-service" offer without an OS, unless they convince every computer manufacturer to make their PC BIOSes a thin client for Microsoft's servers and you rent computing time/power from their datacenters running Windows (though even then, it'd still be Windows with the same backwards compatibility). (of course all that sucks for us who want to buy a thing and keep it forever - or at least as "forever" as activation servers will allow you to - but i'm trying to ignore that aspect in this comment here)
- rasz 7y agoMicrosoft is so big on backwards compatibility they keep trying releasing new products locked to Store UWP software.