At 10:30 pm +1000 12/3/07, Peter Machell wrote:
On 12/03/2007, at 10:05 PM, john hilton wrote:
Putting aside Apple hardware, where all the software works with all the
hardware so long as it's all up to the minute
Now that's not really fair. My principle computer is still a G4 -
the grandparent of current Macs, and the current OS and all the
software I use runs perfectly and fast enough for me.
Apple does leave it's older users behind, but only every five years
or so. This allows it to improve in large steps. Windows, to
Microsoft's credit, does spend a lot of effort on backwards
compatibility, with usually stable results, but their improvements
come more slowly, and often the cost is one step forward, two steps
back.
Peter.
FWIW, my experience has been that Apple has over the past 23 years
succeeded in maintaining compatibility of applications between OS
software versions more than MS has, though they have done a bit worse
in recent few years with CPU platform change.
I have managed to keep apps alive and functional for way more than
five years when Windows apps have broken in much shorter timeframes.
For example, my Adobe Illustrator 1994 version is still perfectly
functional on up-to-date latest 2007 OS on PowerPC machine. Change of
CPU architecture finally kills it.
Ian.
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