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Microsoft is obsessed about backward compatibility. They have to be to continue being the dominant force in the corporate market. They won't even have a choice

Microsoft is obsessed about backward compatibility. They have to be to continue being the dominant force in the corporate market. They won't even have a choice not to support desk-top style apps for the next 20 years, even if at some point they will run in some kind of virtualized environment.

niggler 14y ago
Funny thing: lots of businesses still use windows XP. Backward compatibility is nice but running XP is much better than hoping stuff will work on windows 7 or 8. 20 years from now I wouldnt be surprised to see XP still used ...
- facorreia 14y ago
  For that there is the so Microsoft-named "Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization". http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-and-technologies/mdop/med-v.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-a...
- carlisle_ 14y ago
  >hoping That's why you test - so you know whether or not something works. Additionally, there are significantly more important factors to consider than whether or a particular OS runs your application.
  - niggler 14y ago
    As a business owner with a process that has worked for X>0 years, unless there is a very compelling reason to do so, you don't want to risk disrupting your business with an upgrade of any core piece, especially the operating system. Testing is fine and dandy, and breaks are acceptable in some circles, but in mission critical situations you can't be as frivolous.
    - carlisle_ 14y ago
      There are reasons why you would want to upgrade, security, forward-compatibility, and product support. Since XP is becoming completely unsupported in a year, that's a very compelling reason. Your last sentence doesn't really make any sense. If you're testing thoroughly you shouldn't run into any issues that are completely breaking.
niggler 14y ago
Funny thing: lots of businesses still use windows XP. Backward compatibility is nice but running XP is much better than hoping stuff will work on windows 7 or 8. 20 years from now I wouldnt be surprised to see XP still used ...

niggler 14y ago

Funny thing: lots of businesses still use windows XP. Backward compatibility is nice but running XP is much better than hoping stuff will work on windows 7 or 8. 20 years from now I wouldnt be surprised to see XP still used ...

facorreia 14y ago
For that there is the so Microsoft-named "Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization". http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-and-technologies/mdop/med-v.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-a...
carlisle_ 14y ago
>hoping That's why you test - so you know whether or not something works. Additionally, there are significantly more important factors to consider than whether or a particular OS runs your application.
- niggler 14y ago
  As a business owner with a process that has worked for X>0 years, unless there is a very compelling reason to do so, you don't want to risk disrupting your business with an upgrade of any core piece, especially the operating system. Testing is fine and dandy, and breaks are acceptable in some circles, but in mission critical situations you can't be as frivolous.
  - carlisle_ 14y ago
    There are reasons why you would want to upgrade, security, forward-compatibility, and product support. Since XP is becoming completely unsupported in a year, that's a very compelling reason. Your last sentence doesn't really make any sense. If you're testing thoroughly you shouldn't run into any issues that are completely breaking.

niggler 14y ago