Unfortunately, however, it appears that I apparently now need to start lumping Microsoft in with the others. Unlike Apple, Microsoft has decided to not be as mercenary in culling old hardware from the new operating system support list, and has inherited a substantial burden in the process.
I don’t at all discount Microsoft’s tremendous challenge in needing to comprehend the mind-blowing number of not only new but also legacy systems stretching back many years, and in a variety of form factors. Conversely, I’ve regularly praised the “ extensive backwards-compatible code ecosystem” cultivated by Microsoft and its x86 and other hardware partners: When (regularly, unfortunately) writing about obsolescence by design-specifically the “angle” wherein perfectly good hardware is prematurely done in by a manufacturer’s refusal to continue supporting it with evolutions in associated operating systems and other software-I’ve historically called out Apple as a primary villain.
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