[detaro]

So other OSes prevent this by not even trying to run old software? Yeah, not particularly helpful

[mherkender]

Better to have a strategy for software compatibility and evolution vs Microsoft's strategy of doing nothing.

Pretty much every game console ever made still works with every game for that console, but when it's Windows you never know.

[jobigoud]

> Microsoft's strategy of doing nothing.

Microsoft strategy is to maintain backward compatibility as much as possible.

[mherkender]

Don't let old software break, don't use VMs/containers, don't use versioning: Pick two

Microsoft is the only company to pick all three. That's not strategy, that's indifference.