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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The reason you cannot run newer Windows on old hardware is that you need to have certain processor features. So processors that ran XP might not be able to run Windows 8.1. It's called PROGRESS. Do you want to buy new hardware to find that your OS doesn't make use of it? No, you don't.
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But then why can't the OS make use of new features when they are there and not use those features when they're not? Oh, that's just planned obsolescence on the part of the OS, isn't it.