• 6bicycles [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    They're dragging behind them a good 30 years of legacy support by now that they cannot possibly get rid off or half the organisations that use it wouldn't buy their dumbass OS anymore. It's basically kept afloat by huge firms using Payroll Deluxe 2000 from 1999 to handle all their employee wages and seeing as it works, they refuse to update it, and so MS keeps supporting it, so they refuse to update it etc. etc.

    Like the day MS decides "Okay you know what, we cannot possibly get this bloated mess to work any longer, our new OS doesn't support all the old shit now" you're probably going to see some major corporations and large parts of public sector organisations just basically falter.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, home edition Windows is basically spyware now. There's no profit in it unless they show you ads 24/7.