When is Microsoft going to stop using backwards compatability in all their systems and make a new, good OS?

Question

And no, this isn't some rant about how I hate Microsoft (well, I kinda do actually...) or how Apple is the best or anything like that. This is a serious question.
Does Microsoft have any plans to do something like what Apple did with OS X?

Answer 1

Backwards compatibility will always be a be a core part of the OS. This is a good feature actually and is not going anywhere. How would you like to buy a car that runs on regular old gas then have a new kind of gas that comes out and have all the gas stations change to the new gas. Your old car would be useless and you would have wasted all that money on it for nothing. I know a silly analogy but it gets the point across.

Answer 2

First, to do that, Microsoft would have to admit that all the Operating Systems that they put out to date were pure garbage, and they would never do anything like that.



Second, if they didn't make an operating system that was backwards compatible, all the investment that companies and private users made in software would become worthless overnight. Even the people at Microsoft aren't stupid enough to pull a stunt like that.

Answer 3

they tried and everyone bitched to no end that they had to buy new stuff for a vista os...

pay attention

fact is apple had the same problem with os9 and 10.

but mac users don't care about spending money un-necessarily.

Answer 4

so you want them to make a completely brand new operating system in which nothing you currently have in your house would work on it... a completely new system where nothing currently in the stores would work with it... if you want something like this why don't you just switch to mac.... they are more user friendly and have far fewer programs that will work on them.

Answer 5

NEVER