SME?

(SME - small/midsize enterprise) They bought 3-seat Office license in 2007 for £650, they just upgraded to 2019 and it was £750

Ah okay enterprise wise barrier of entry

I see that's fair

Assuming 2019 lasts another 12 years, the subscription route would have cost £1700

I was talking from a personal user point of view

well that's even easier

I wouldn't spend £70 on office, much less £70 a year

I definitely wouldn't buy Windows 10

Well I get 1TB per user with that and I would get the same price on something dropbox

I get license for me and 6 other people

I wouldn't spend over £100 on an OS knowing full well that Microsoft will physically kill it off and force me to replace my hardware in 3 years

Microsoft don't force you to replace hardware

anyone remember lindows?

Yes they do, Farrongoth

Not in the way apple do anyway

Pretty much in exactly the way apple do

They remove legacy hardware support from every feature update

And definitely not deliberately

Absolutely deliberately

You mean the BIOS/UEFI rift?

That's just one example

YOu talking about XP

No

Not XP, Windows 10

They supported that for nearly 15 years

XP was a monolithic release

If you installed XP on a PC in 2001, it would still install in 2016

(Initial release in 2001, SP3 in 2016)

Yeah and Windows 10 can install on anyway software as old as it release at least

Not the case with Windows 10

That's a carefully worded sentence, Farrongoth

You can install windows 10 on a Raspberry PI

It's carefully worded cos I don't know if you can install on 10 year old hardware

You could, Farrongoth

I would say yes so long yo can get at least 4GB of RAM

Ram is not relevent

If anything, Apple is better than Microsoft on this score

Well that's the only thing that would stop windows 10 install on older hardware with the exception of some really niche hardware.

Windows 10 doesn't ship with drivers it tends to download and install as needed

Apple have a very clear set of expectations

Their OS can be installed on a defined range of devices,a nd be upgraded within a define window