Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "End Of Windows Desktop? Last Phase of The Desktop Wars?" video.

  1. My words. Why Windows won't ever leave, even in multiple versions? Simple. Legacy sotware. Want to play original TTDL? Need XP. Wanna play Atomic Bomberman? Either emulator, or, you've guessed it, XP. And that's just legacy games! Sure, I'm running my SW Rebellion on a Win7 machine, but I doubt it would run on my "work" driver, which is a Wn10 laptop. So I'm stuck like this. A lot of companies are technologically stuck too. My uncle works in Romania in a factory, they still have and use machines from 1930, because nothing more precise came to the market in their particular field of manufacturing (given what they make, I'll not provide further details). But the same works for us. Sure, upgrade, but that's useless waste of money, unless you actually need to upgrade, because you can pay for it. Say you have an old CNC being run by a Win95 machine, which is integrated in to a network and which is recieving it's tasks from a Linux server, which in turn recieves the work files from a work station running Win10... All you need to achieve, is for that legacy machine to be able to read properly output of more modern software. You can run that granny and keep your company afloat for tens of bucks, while a replacement could easily cost hundreds of thousands and that is exactly the mindset, which smal businesses as well as huge megacorps will gravitate to. You think this is not the case? Not feasable? Not normal? Well, In June of 2019 (those were the days...) Chip magazine came up with an article stating that banks and institutions were still running on COBOL based software in 2014...You know... programming language that saw the assasination of JFK. There is a looot of interoperability of young and old out there on the Internet.
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  2. @Codeman That's not always feasable. One, companies don't want to expend resources and milk already spent resources, preventing deployment of your recommendation. Two, there can be probles with access to resources. It is always better to have true direct access to HW rather than accessing them through layer of virtualisation.
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