Keith,
There is the realization in the apple community that everyone will, at some point, be forced to upgrade. There isn’t a lot of noise simply because it is already a known fact (and apple doesn’t charge for OS upgrades). MS got into a lot of trouble and started losing gobs of money when they tried to insist that everyone pay for OS upgrades on every upgrade. Honestly, if it were up to me, I would have the dev teams for both apple and MS working on solving all the old bugs that never seem to go away, regardless of major version. There are some bugs in both OS environments that go back to very early days of each (in the case of windows, a few such bugs go back as far as the msDos based systems using win 3.1).
Oh, and as for MS demanding upgrades, they are part of the same consortium that brought you the extensible firmware interface and are also involved heavily in the trusted platform module project (which is why win11 might not install on machines older than some pre-described date). Also, MS does sell their OS in the retail markets for those who custom build their own machines. However, their biggest money maker happens to be the licensing scheme they use (and volume licenses can cost as much as $2,000 a unit yearly for corporate environments). That also applies to government contracts (ever been to the SSA or even the state dept of economic security? Virtually every desktop is a windows machine with some kind of back end server setup for in house storage, security, database and other things.
Anyway, that’s my take on the whole apple vs. MS vs Linux contest that has been going on since the early 2000’s.
-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Historical References Dept.
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