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by TazeTSchnitzel 4244 days ago
I'd argue the point of giving the OS away for free was nothing to do with buying new devices. It was probably to make sure people upgraded sooner, rather than being put off by having to buy the new version. Better for the whole ecosystem.
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galago 4244 days ago
Well put. Its just like iOS--developers are happier if most people are running the latest version. Less version-fragmentation. The "less adopted" variants of Windows are a problem for development and testing. It might make sense to only support/test XP, 7, and 10--but what a mess that is.
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TazeTSchnitzel 4244 days ago
Yeah. You need only look at Android to see the hell that version fragmentation can be for developers.
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yuhong 4244 days ago
Just last month, there was an win32k update for which the Win8.0 version failed to install on machines that was in-place upgraded. Only the Win8.0 (aka NT 6.2) version had the problem.
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