Isn’t Windows like the king of backwards compatibility? I am of the opinion that it’s more people that just like the OS because they’re used to it, not that it’d actually break their workflows. They’d just have to learn a few new ways of doing things, and they don’t want to.
In thinking about this, I have come up with a few reasons to not upgrade OSs:
- If the new OS costs money, like Windows used to be, yeah I might not buy it if it isn’t enough better. When my new laptop comes with it, I’m not going to go out of the way to downgrade it though.
- If the only OS maker in town was a monopoly (but then again, if there was a monopoly, they’d probably force you to upgrade to continue using your device, almost like what windows is doing, as they really do have a large monopoly on gaming)
Finally, in thinking about this, I’m just so glad Linux exists and is actually a good alternative to Windows.
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 days ago
From what I remember it’s backwards compatible on lower levels but can you easily run a Windows 7 app on Windows 10? Windows 11 was a smaller change but then they force you to upgrade hardware which is opposite of compatibility.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yes? Pretty much anything made for XP and up will run on 11. Shit as long as the program is 32 bit it will probably run. Only exception is games, and that’s more just because hardware has moved on.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I wouldn’t expect someone to upgrade hardware just to get the newest OS. And yeah, you can run a windows 7 app on windows 10, there’s a compatibility mode in the properties of the exe where you can tell it to run in Windows xyz compatibility mode, though often you won’t need to bother with that, as it’ll just work.