The Flawed Eventually-upgrade Software Model
I think Windows XP was the first real release of Windows–it had finally gotten to a usability and stability point that people could accept. The Microsoft support model changed shortly after Windows XP was released to basically support any piece of software for as long as ten years (if you paid extra for support roughly 2 years after a successive version was released). To paraphrase a famous law: software becomes obsolete every 18 months. That was true for a long time; but hardware and software isn’t improving at that rate any more. Software has basically caught up with existing hardware … Continue reading The Flawed Eventually-upgrade Software Model