>That's because Windows 8 wasn't incompatible with the same hardware that could run windows 7. That only matters if people actually upgrade their Windows 7 ins

>That's because Windows 8 wasn't incompatible with the same hardware that could run windows 7. That only matters if people actually upgrade their Windows 7 installs to Windows 8 installs. And since it was a paid upgrade to an OS that was arguable worse than what people had, people probably skipped out. How Windows upgrades worked before Windows 10 was that you upgraded to a new version of Windows when you bought a new PC. Every other means of upgrading was minor at best, since it wasn't available through Windows Update for free.