• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    Mostly because Microsoft tries to maintain backwards compatibility to ridiculous extents, and their customers grew accustomed to it so they kinda rely on it, no ?

    • 🅃🅾🅆🅴🄻🅸🄴@lemm.ee
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      13 minutes ago

      Surely it’s less work to maintain security patches for a few prior versions of windows than it is to indefinitely maintain backwards compatibility