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The explanation is probably, "We want to sell licenses for the latest version of Windows". Microsoft played the lock-in game too well and they can't even get t
by cookiecaper 16y ago
The explanation is probably, "We want to sell licenses for the latest version of Windows".
Microsoft played the lock-in game too well and they can't even get their customers to upgrade to new versions of the same software. Since Windows is a one-time purchase, if no one is buying the new versions of Windows, Microsoft is making much money off of these new versions.
- billswift 16y agoI've been using Windows and Linux side-by-side for different things since 1996. Some things have just been more trouble to set up in Linux than I wanted to bother with, with Windows available and easy to use. But Vista annoyed me enough that I am gradually switching more of my work to Linux, hopefully by the time this Vista box dies, I will just switch everything over to Linux.
- nfm 16y agoIs it just me, or can nobody else see this working in practice? Upgrading to Windows 7 to get IE 10 seems like a classic "You're doing it wrong"!
- bruceboughton 16y agoBy itself, yes. But if there are 5 other MS products where the latest version is not supported on Vista, they start to add up. It could be 3 successive IE releases, for example...