XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Chris  wrote:   
   > On 31/03/2024 19:17, Newyana2 wrote:   
   [...]   
      
   [About Apple:]   
      
   > > quickly dropping   
   > > support for older products.   
   >   
   > Which from a security standpoint works very well. Apple long ago stopped   
   > selling OS updates - which Microsoft still kinda does - as it made sense   
   > to have as many users as possible on the latest and most up-to-date OS   
   > version.   
      
     Maybe you can still buy some Microsoft Windows upgrades for some niche   
   corner cases, but effectively all Windows upgrades have been free, ever   
   since Windows 7 (2009!), till today (Windows 11).   
      
     Of course you can still buy full licenses, for systems which come   
   without one, but those are not upgrades.   
      
   > Charging for updates means users won't update in a timely manner and   
   > that leaves MS with the headache of having to support multiple versions   
   > concurrently which is expensive and inefficient.   
      
     Aside from Microsoft not charging for upgrades or updates, Wikipedia   
   tells me that Apple also still supports three versions of macOS (12, 13   
   and 14), with - I'm sure - their subversions, while Microsoft supports   
   two Windows versions (10 and 11), with - to some extent - their   
   subversions. So I  don't think Apple and Microsoft are all that   
   different in this respect. (Only the number of years spanning those   
   versions is much shorter for Apple than for Microsoft (less than 3   
   versus nearly 9).)   
      
      
      
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