I tried installing Vista on a PIII 700 once. DVD wouldn't boot - gave weird errors that I concluded at the time meant that the PIII didn't support some CPU instructions it was using.
I'm sorry, but I think that running an OS or any software that isn't currently supported by the vendor for security updates on any system connected to the public Internet is reckless. I can tell you that I don't have any family members, work-related machines, or anybody within my sphere of...
You don't get the whining?
a) MS is going to support Win10 until 2025. So everything unsupported in 11 is e-waste in 2025.
b) PCs are a mature technology. For many, many people and uses, a sandy bridge with enough RAM and an SSD is more than good enough. For some people, you might even be able...
The GPU manufacturers tend to be quite good at supporting their products with drivers for a long time, in part, I think, because they understand the importance of the used market. People are more likely to buy expensive 3080/3090-class GPUs if those GPUs can be sold at high prices two or three...
Abandoning legacy Win32 would be suicide, regardless of any plan/transition period. Inertia works in Microsoft's favour - people keep running legacy things on Windows, developers make mild updates to their legacy Windows-based products, everybody is happy and keeps printing money.
If you tell...
Why have multiple versions? So they can price discriminate. It lets the hardware manufacturers price discriminate too. To use Windows in any kind of businessy environment, you need Active Directory and that means Pro. So, unless you have a volume licence agreement that gives you access to...
Interestingly, Microsoft tried that approach with Windows XP Mode in Win7. I suspect it was fairly widely used, if only so that you could migrate your bare metal OS to 64-bit and keep running those pesky DOS/16-bit business applications. But... what happened to XP Mode after Win7?
The problem is, 'legacy' is ultimately why people buy Windows... well, legacy and corporate management features. Every time they try a Windows RT or Windows 10 S or anything that doesn't have backwards compatibility with the big chaotic mess of Win32 x86 software (and driver compatibility for...
The problem is that 'Microsoft' doesn't seem very unified on this point.
The reality is that what the development team produced is what should fairly be called NT 6.5 (assuming you count all feature updates for 10 as 6.4). It works like all the other NT 6.x versions, it uses the same drivers...
So far, it appears as though the hardware requirement checking may only be for feature updates, but who knows. I think things will become clearer after the first couple of cumulative updates.
Yup, I remember going from 128 megs to 256 megs to 640 megs of RAM in an attempt to feed the beast known as 2000. At 640 it was actually very happy. (And here 20 years later, I have 64 gigs of RAM... funny how things evolve)
Re XPx64, there wouldn't have been an earlier version because I think...
For better or worse, they don't sell Windows on a subscription basis to consumers. So... I think they would prefer you regularly buy new PCs with fresh new OEM licences to use your 365 subscription stuff on.
If you were coming from 98SE, XP was a dramatic improvement. Drivers would have been an issue because some vendors back then didn't want to support 'NT' with drivers for consumer products and so you didn't have drivers from 2000 or earlier NT versions for those.
If you were coming from 2000, XP...
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