[scarface74]

The only reason that PC hardware is standardized is because MS and Intel came up with standards in 1995 and continue to update them along with other committees.

Dell doesn’t have to release new drivers. I installed Windows 10 on a Dell E6500 Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz laptop that was sold in 2009.

My mom still occasionally uses my Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66Ghz from 2006 with Windows 7. This was without any drivers from Apple. Windows 7 recognized everything.

Going even further back, I bought a DX/2-66 DOS Compatibility Card from Apple in 1994 that came with Windows 3.1. I upgraded it to Windows 95.

Microsoft figured out how to nourish a platform over 25 years ago. Google and Android - not so much.