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Speaking to Windows Weekly, Microsoft Marketing chief Chris Capossela explained that users who choose Windows 7 do so “at your own risk, at your own peril” and he revealed Microsoft has concerns about its future software and hardware compatibility, security and more.
[...] There’s only one problem with Capossela’s statements: they are complete rubbish. Windows 7 is no less secure than Windows 10 (it will be supported until 2020) and no less compatible with new hardware and software. In fact its far greater market share means it is developers’ priority and has greater compatibility with legacy programmes and peripherals. If Fallout 4 won’t run on your Windows 7 computer, it will be upgrading your components not installing Windows 10 which fixes that.
As for fragmentation, the only issue that creates is for Microsoft and its target of getting one billion devices running Windows 10 within 2-3 years of release.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:06AM
If this were true I wouldn't still be running my seven year old MacBook Pro, which is running Apple's latest operating system perfectly well. They did not make me pay for it either.
This counterexample seems perfectly sufficient proof for me to say that you, sir, are full of $#|+.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Marand on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:33AM
If this were true I wouldn't still be running my seven year old MacBook Pro, which is running Apple's latest operating system perfectly well. They did not make me pay for it either.
This counterexample seems perfectly sufficient proof for me to say that you, sir, are full of $#|+.
Ah, yes, you certainly got me there. A single anecdote from one anonymous person claiming to not update hardware or software is definitive, irrefutable proof that Apple doesn't want to encourage people to buy newer versions of its products. Well played, sir. By that same logic, because some people haven't upgraded to Windows 10 -- which is also free, so what's your point? -- Microsoft clearly isn't trying to push users to upgrade.
PS: Apple's business is selling you the hardware, not the software. Of course they're giving you the software cheap (or free, as it has done more recently), it almost always results in things getting slower which encourages people (especially less savvy users) to get new hardware. Like I said, Microsoft can't do that sort of thing because it doesn't have a stranglehold on its ecosystem the way Apple does.