• radix@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    What I really don’t understand is how Microsoft has a near religious dedication to backwards compatibility at the technical level, but will move on to whatever next shiny object they see when it comes to compatibility at the user level.

    Relearning the basic functionality of operating a computer every few years rests entirely on the end user, and never on the developer. It’s aggressively backwards.

    • Archer@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Pretty easy to explain, you’re not the customer, corpos paying 8 figures annually who need to run their 90s software are