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minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·2 days agoPeople use windows because it has decades of backwards compatibility sort of.
minus-squarespartanatreyu@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 days agoThat should be: People use used windows because it has had decades of backwards compatibility sort of. Nowadays: it has current compatibility sort of. Microsoft is a mess now, so it’s no surprise that their current Windows version is also a mess.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoFor the most part they just didn’t update. See XP usage.
People use windows because it has decades of backwards compatibility sort of.
That should be:
People
useused windows because ithashad decades of backwards compatibility sort of.Nowadays: it has current compatibility sort of.
Microsoft is a mess now, so it’s no surprise that their current Windows version is also a mess.
For the most part they just didn’t update.
See XP usage.