Message from @farrongoth
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Let alone versions of WX
I am arguing from a personal consumer point not an enterprise consumer point of view. Microsoft's business model is an improvement, since going to Windows 10, but that is my personal opinion unfortunately.
yes they can, farrongoth, they can run your hardware id's against their database and see if they're compatible - it would be trivial
it's different
Yeah but they have to have tested that hardware.
it only has to be in their driver db
The compitability checks CPU architecture ram and storage I'm pretty sure it doesn't check hardware at all
it doesn't, but it needs to
it'd solve all the remaining problems
You are right they could if they wanted to. They do to some degree because it installs drivers for most things automatically although you can almost always install better drivers
That's been true since XP tho
difference being service packs for xp didn't remove hardware support and therefore break existing installs
which is my contention with windows 10 🙂
I don't think windows 10 does, tbh but I cba scouring the internet to find out if it is the case
it is the case
Manufacturers tend to provide drivers not microsoft themself I'm pretty sure.
not on legacy hardware they don't
and it wouldn't be much help if the feature update physically cannot install
Okay
like i said, they can fix this by creating a much better compatibility checker tool - one that actually -checks- compatibility of hardware rather than just checking free disk space, cpu speed, and ram size, and then not forcing incompatible feature updates on people that don't work
Pretty sure the second part isn't true
xp was probably the best OS from Windows
That's an easy stance to take
last of the 'small' OS'
wasnt a resorce whore
and Vista came next which made it look epic 😂
It definitely is true 🙂
the RAM jump alone was crippling for a lot of people
Yeah, definitely
7 felt like a move back towards the right direction however was still clunky. luckily hardware had caught up by then
10 is just odd
the rollouts where they just flat out move features like Sound Control
irk me
I do hate the UI changes/reductions
from a work perspective the Snap features of 7%10 were really good
however they could have just updated XP and we'd have all been happy 😂
Might not have been possible they tried keep XP up to with Service Pack but XP ended up bloated by Service Pack 3
fair
although bloated for XP and bloated for vista/7/10 are utterly different things
Typically takes an OS five years to iron the bugs out