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Originally Posted by Graham44
Isn't that kind of the whole Microsoft business model? Break stuff so that people have to keep continually upgrading (both software and hardware)?  |
More complicated than that with MS. They seem to want people to buy new HW if buying new Windows versions. Actual Windows applications not obsolete anything like as fast as Apple as they change platform: 68000, Power PC, x86-32, x86-64, ARM. It's specific kinds of builds of 32 bit Windows programs that don't work on 64 Windows 7, 10 and 11.
The XP 64 for Itanium was short lived. It came out the same time as 32 bit XP for x86.
There are still some Windows programs from Apple Power PC era (approx before 2001 or 2002) that still work on Windows.
The iOS and Android apps are orphaned faster.