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The Windows ecosystem is at its core about backward compatibility and minimizing training costs (path dependence). There are billions of employees who have to b
by supertrope 2y ago
The Windows ecosystem is at its core about backward compatibility and minimizing training costs (path dependence). There are billions of employees who have to be trained button click by button click. Even their IT support is often trained on Windows only.
And yet Microsoft pushes through all sorts of arbitrary changes that only benefit Microsoft like Candy Crush, Cortana, Copilot surveillance, can't be uninstalled OneDrive, mandatory TPM, and a search that depends on Internet connectivity.
- hulitu 2y ago> The Windows ecosystem is at its core about backward compatibility It was. A long time ago.
- kasabali 2y ago> The Windows ecosystem is at its core about backward compatibility and minimizing training costs (path dependence). There are billions of employees who have to be trained button click by button click. If this was their core they must've butchered it by releasing Windows 8, Windows 10 and most recently , Windows 11. And I'm not even counting thousands of minute stuff they've changed versions before these.