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Originally posted by hulk
The incompatability that they have when they release a new system is very-Microsofty. Anyone else seen this?
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You must be a Mac die-hard to make a comment like that!
As much as I hate to give MS kudos, all of their operating systems since Windows 95 are backward compatible. Yes, there are some applications that have different code for 9x or XP but you can still get the correct app for your OS version - the only one I really know of is Windows Media Player. Microsoft is starting to lose their backward compatibility with Office 2003 but it's a marketing move.
In contrast, it seems that Apple has no qualms about dropping support for older an OS. Didn't you need to update your software from 7 to 8, 8 to 9, and now 9 to 10? Hell, I can't buy an Airport Extreme card for my Ti PowerBook and it's only two years old! I'll need to get a third-party card. Panther no longer includes a copy of OS 9. That's a pretty clear message, isn't it?
However, Apple has always led with innovation and it might be because they don't try and maintain compatibility with every OS. On the other hand, Microsoft has never been known as the innovator because they keep including 16-bit compatibility code.