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Depends what kind of software you're running...
Submitted by Paul Houle (not verified) on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 14:05.

I haven't been that impressed with backwards compatiblity in Windows: I remember seeing lots of remainder rack games from the Windows 95/98 era that wouldn't work on Win 2K or XP. Personally I really like Vista -- however, it's broken a lot of old software.

It seems that backward compatibility is a problematic around Windows. Windows users expect backwards compatiblity, but they never really get it. The promise of backwards compatibility is, I think, one of the reasons that Windows has a dominant market position. Business customers like the idea that OS upgrade aren't going to bust all their software, and so consumers.

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