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A big reason for that is their commitment to compatibility to past software. They kind of have to because they have people all over the world using old Microsof
by labrador 4y ago
A big reason for that is their commitment to compatibility to past software. They kind of have to because they have people all over the world using old Microsoft software. They finally were just able to kill IE6 and Japan is screaming about it. So they ship a lot of ship a lot of weird software and technology in your words. Google just kills things when they get bored with it. Microsoft can't do that.
- a-dub 4y agothat's the classic excuse. but even azure, which was built from the ground up, is pretty weird compared to its major competitors. also, apple showed us how to do this. build the right thing for today and use virtualization to support yesterday until it can be updated. all software is living these days anyhow.
- labrador 4y agoI currently own an iPad which is useless to me because a bunch of apps won't load on it because it's old, including GMail. I have better luck with my old hardware running Windows software.