From: michael.pohoreski@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 6:57:53 PM UTC-7, Mark Lemmert wrote:   
   > On Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 11:40:43 AM UTC-5, fadden wrote:    
   > >Windows does an amazing job with software; you can still run creaky old   
   versions of CiderPress. Apple discards all software >every few years: 68K,   
   then PPC, then x86, then x64, then ARM. They interpret the old stuff for a few   
   years then drop it.   
   > I love this about Windows and hate that about Apple.   
      
   Microsoft looks towards the past, Apple towards the future.  Neither is   
   better, just different.  There are pros and cons for each philosophy.  One is   
   built upon hack-after-hack, the other abandoned although in Apple's case at   
   least they provide notice    
   and support deprecated features for a little bit before completely yanking the   
   rug.   
      
   Apple is one of the few companies that have had their ecosystem (OS & Apps)   
   migrate through 4 hardware changes as mentioned above because they are about   
   making _their_ life easier, consumer be damned.  Yeah, it is frustrating   
   knowing the hardware is    
   perfectly good, albeit slow, and no longer supported.   
      
   Microsoft was about making the consumer's life easier (when they aren't   
   CONSTANTLY fucking up the UI).  "Lately" they have switched to more of an   
   Apple approach with their shenanigans of dropping support for newer CPUs   
   (Ryzen) on Windows 7 because they    
   are about shoving Windows 10 and 11 down consumer's throats.  As bad as   
   Windows is, a bad defacto standard is still better then no standard at all.   
   /me Throwing light shade at Linux. :-)   
      
   Microsoft is also still struggling to treat ARM as a first class citizen.   
   Ironically Windows NT also used to initially support MIPS and Dec Alpha. Part   
   of the difference is due to Apple being a hardware company and MS was   
   traditionally a software company    
   (excluding the odd example of MS selling a 16 KB Language Card for the Apple 2   
   until they got serious about Mice, Keyboards, and Consoles.)  MS bet big on   
   "investing" in the Developer Ecosystem and it paid off, although Apple is   
   having the last laugh    
   their popularity of mobile and tablets.   
      
   I've been using Windows, MacOS, and Linux for decades. Operating Systems, like   
   Editors, ALL suck.  The trick is to find the one(s) that annoy you the least   
   so you can get your work done. =P   
      
   Michael   
      
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