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Originally Posted by pilotbob
You also have to realize they operate in totally different markets. You can still run pretty much any app still on Windows 7 (32-bit). Where as Apple has twice (I think it was) abandoned older software by creating a whole new OS...
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One of the biggest fundamental philosophical differences between Microsoft and Apple, since the days of the IBM PC and the Apple ][ Plus has been the concept of backwards compatibility. Microsoft went to great lengths to preserve it and Apple never even acknowledge that it was important or necessary.
Microsoft has since had to make concession because of advances in both hardware and software architecture, but they still maintain “DOS compatibility mode” now called the CMD prompt, and XP compatibility mode which is an instance of XP running on a virtual machine.
I, for one like to have some assurance that my very expensive software is going to survive an OS upgrade.