Windows has had to promise and deliver complete backward compatibility to retain their market share. They've painted themselves into a corner
I think that's correlation, not causation. Look at Sun and their Solaris backwards-compatibility guarantee (which is, if your old binaries break on our new version, it's our bug and we'll fix it).
I think that's correlation, not causation. Look at Sun and their Solaris backwards-compatibility guarantee (which is, if your old binaries break on our new version, it's our bug and we'll fix it).