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Originally Posted by HarryT
Precisely. People buy PCs to run applications; the overwhelming majority don't give a damn what version of an operating system it's running.
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And when those applications will no longer run on a new machine, what should they buy?
That's the nub of we naysayers are stating. I bought a piece of software. It did what I wanted then and still does now. Why do I have to scrap it, and re-buy it, because the new machines won't run it? Is there a new version even available? How many different applications will I have to buy? All of these issues are seen by those people who "don't give a damn", at least until they get the final bill. And bill. And bill.
Microsoft is trying to convert Windows into a "walled garden", just like Apple has built for iOS and the Mac. That way, nobody will leave, and they can reap the economic benefits of the closed environment.