How have the poor spec. What you mean is you ran the Compatibility software and it said you could you did and it broke

Sorry bad sentence cba re writing

Yes, on 3 of 5 devices I have at home, and at work, about 30% of their entire PC fleet is manually limited to 1709 because 1803+ won't work

I don't know what 1709 and 1803+ are I assume sockets?

no, versions of windows 10

Oh Are they mobile devices arm devices, or intel amd devices

work devices are all intel bog standard platforms from dell

home devices are a mix of intel and amd

I update windows whenever it wants, I had an issue once in 4 years of using windows 10

well like i said, this is an issue for legacy hardware

I don't think that's microsoft's fault though, they provide a greater freedom to the user in terms of hardware they can't compatibility check every piece of hardware

Lol, we still have Window 7 on some machines

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

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