Re: Wankery
They do.
At gunpoint.
968 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Aug 2006
If the Windows 11 hardware requirements cripple anything it's Microsoft's bottom line, due to people not being able to upgrade. You can still quite happily run decades old MS-DOS or Windows 16-bit software on 32-bit Windows 10. Microsoft exemplary compared to Apple and Linux when it comes to back compat, because of its huge business user base.
Yes indeed people still use it. Why do they use it? Because it's extremely easy to knock up a simple in-house desktop database-backed application without the insane levels of complexity involved in doing the same thing on modern .Net or as a web application leveraging (insert this month's trendy Javascript stack here).
Man + dog knew at the time it was an improvement on Windows 7 saddled with a UI that made zero sense on desktop machines. The 'future is all touchscreen' mantra was rampant like the 'future is pretend AI' mantra today. Remember how consoles and gaming PCs were going to be dead and it would all be tablets and phones?