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by Spooky23 4349 days ago
From what I've heard, if you're not working on cloud services, you're a dinosaur.

They just let go of XP and cloud services are making the need to support office version X for 10 years less relevant. MS must spend a ridiculous amount of time & treasure supporting old crap.
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adamnemecek 4349 days ago
> MS must spend a ridiculous amount of time & treasure supporting old crap.

But backwards compatibility is kind of the reason why a lot of customers buy MS products.

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neutronman 4349 days ago
They sold Windows 3.1 until the year 2008. I would agree that they spend way too many resources on the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x

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kevin_thibedeau 4349 days ago
They still sell embedded DOS. Supporting legacy products is good customer service. It's not like they were spending tons of resources to maintain the code.
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