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uh yeah.. PCs have component level granularity... macs are black-boxes and monolithic (aside: one of my first jobs was in IT for a middle school (I was in HS)

• rbanffy 5y ago
  That's not the biggest issue. Windows is built on layers, some dating back to NT. It's a much more complicated beast than a Mac, where Apple deprecates APIs every now and then. No current Mac can run MacOS 9 applications. On a Windows PC it's common to go deeper into the OS (say, to figure out why the wi-fi stopped working) and find UIs rendered with 3 different ways to anti-alias text, sometimes in the same window, and that's not even counting the vendor-specific UIs that import their own look and feel. All that speaks volumes how parts of the OS are seemingly left to rot while newer and prettier ones are built on top of the rotting pieces. The result is that every current Windows PC can run ancient windows applications (I believe 16-bit ones, at least, are no longer supported).