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Why is it there's an expectation for MS to support XP for so long, yet people have so little problem with Apple's OS policies? Entire PowerPC architecture aban
by bbarn 13y ago
Why is it there's an expectation for MS to support XP for so long, yet people have so little problem with Apple's OS policies? Entire PowerPC architecture abandoned between versions? My last mac was a great little 10 inch ultra-portable, which no more than 6 months after purchase was made obsolete by the Intel macs release. A release upon which, they not only stopped supporting the old OS, they stopped giving people any upgrade path at all for their equipment. Most machines that run XP can be made to run windows 7, albeit without all the bells and whistles. Those that aren't, are likely old enough that they'll probably need replacing soon enough anyway.
- sentenza 13y agoBecause there are different kinds of "just works". There are those people that want to have a seamlessly integrated UI that just works, so they use Apple. There are those people that want their toolchain to just work, so they use Linux/BSD. And finally, there are those that want their computer to just work until it breaks and they have to buy a new one. Those people are "still on Windows".