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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Tom Elam   
   Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users   
   11 Feb 26 02:54:19   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:23:51 -0500, Tom Elam wrote:   
      
   > On 2/10/2026 7:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:02:35 -0500, Tom Elam wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> To its detriment Windows has been the champ at backward   
   >>> compatibility ...   
   >>   
   >> Microsoft do like to foster that impression. But if they were   
   >> really any good at it, Windows updates wouldn’t be the painful   
   >> ordeal that they have become these days.   
   >   
   > Thus detriment   
      
   The point being that the backward compatibility is a myth, else   
   updates would be a no-brainer.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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