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

I agree with the first part.

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

Vista was bloated from the get go