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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
If you want the product, feel free to pay the price.
Just don't suddenly say - I shocked, shocked, to find I'm locked into a platform...
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I've been locked into Windows since 3.0 but that's not entirely true as I'm typing this on an iPhone.
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Originally Posted by rcentros
In this case, what you mean is, a monopoly almost completely controlling the desktop has a price. If Windows 7 satisfactorily runs your applications, how is it "progress" to demand customers move to Windows 10?
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Then I guess we should hold MS to be accountable and backwards compatible for how long? I'm sure there are some 286 machines still running should MS be made to support them forever?
As far as demanding the. To upgrade I'm not sure where that's coming from. My wife has a W7 machine and yes it asked her if she wants to upgrade but hasn't been forced. Then maybe I miss something in the last 20-30 pages of the thread.
In the car world manufacturers are only required to make parts available for 10 years and in some cases you lucky if they are out there for 3 past the last production date.