Hi Charles, When it comes to hardware manufacturers they are looking at it from the perspective of PC builders and manufacturers like Del, HP, Gateway, etc. Those companies are building new PCs with Windows 7 and Windows 8 on them so that is where the market is for hardware manufacturers. Trying to sustain backwards compatibility with XP wouldn't be in their best interests long term.
What I mean by that is it all comes down to money. Del, HP, Gateway, Toshiba,etc make their money buy selling new computers. The hardware manufacturers Intel, AMD, Asuse, ATI, and so on make their money by selling parts to the PC builders. Microsoft as the largest software manufacturer in the world also insures their OS is designed for the new hardware rather than making it backwards compatible with systems older than five years or so. Neither group has any interest or desire to insure your five or ten year old machine can be upgraded because everyone loses money from the hardware manufacturers, the software providers, and the PC builders on down the line. Put another way if 7 out of every 10 customers have XP then the goal of a PC manufacturer like Del and a software developer like Microsoft is to find a way to get as many of those people to upgrade to the latest hardware and software for sale. One way to do that is by simply stopping all support for the prior OS, and stop making parts for it. Sooner or later the reluctant customer has a choice to upgrade or do without. Cheers! On 4/30/13, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > Isn't this exactly why older hardware should be supported? People still use > > them. Supply what the people want rather than the other way around. If l7 > > out of 10 of my customers use older machines, I would produce stuff they can > > use. To me, saying that we are moving on and it is up to you as to whether > > you follow the trends is counterproductive when dealing with visually > impaired customers based on their very valid reasons for not wanting to > upgrade. > > -- > If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling > errors! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
