[Kwpolska]

Have you ever heard of Windows? Unlike Apple, they do care about backwards compatibility, and don’t randomly go removing features users depend on.

[pjmlp]

Also they aren't the only ones, this is pretty much standard across commercial UNIXes (the survivors), embedded OSes, mainframes and micros.

[iknowstuff]

and the consequences are dire

[Rohansi]

Are they? IMO Windows going downhill has more to do with what is being added to it than what it is preserving compatibility for.