> and if you have a bunch of third parties running bad software, consumers would lose faith in the platform altogether.
Famously the reason no one ever used Microsoft Windows.
Famously the reason no one ever used Microsoft Windows.
Microsoft in its early days invested a shit ton of money and effort into backwards compatibility testing and fix development. Up until Windows 7 you could be reasonably sure that any piece of software from the Windows 95 32-bit days would still work without major issues - even 16-bit software would run under a 32-bit W7 host, only W7 x64 finally dropped support for that.