• PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The biggest problem Microsoft has is that the biggest selling feature of Windows is its ability to be backwards compatible and run on older hardware. The fact that a good number of PCs that aren’t even 10 years old can’t even run it is the issue. Also, MacOS names for each update are unique and interesting. Windows 11 is a very uncreative name which has always been a problem with Microsoft; example: Xbox One…

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      3 hours ago

      the biggest selling feature of Windows is its ability to be backwards compatible and run on older hardware

      Really? I thought it was supposed to run older software, I don’t think hardware comes into it.

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      6 hours ago

      Maybe it is worth saying that it isn’t that it can’t run on it, it is that Microsoft is trying to stop it from running on it. Two registry keys and 11 replaces 10 on anything 10 works on. But they don’t want to tell anyone that.

      But the premise is sound: to the end consumer they hear “buy a new computer” while the old one works fine, and the new ones price is starting to climb…

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      7 hours ago

      I genuinely couldn’t tell you what the current gen Xbox is named, though to be fair I don’t really pay that much attention these days.

      But yeah, Windows can’t really have much of a default theme update when there are a good four different window styles throughout the various settings panels.

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      5 hours ago

      A lot of people are also questioning why they even have a home PC now. Their Win 10 machine is “out of date” and they need to replace it or else, but their cell phone now does much of what their PC did. Instead of installing Linux and learning a whole new OS, they just cut out their PC and just use their phone.