Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 12th Jul 2007 19:46 UTC, submitted by netpython
"DirectX 10 would not work with XP, and that was fine and dandy. It was an honest technical reason why you could not backport DX10 to XP without a major rip and replace operation. Microsoft wasn't going to bend on this one at all." More here.
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"Getting people to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade even though they have no compelling reason to do so? "
This is bullshit. You're not forced to upgrade. You're only "forced" to upgrade if you want to take advantage of the new features. If you dont need them, you have no complelling reason to upgrade and do not need to do so.
"Actually, it does matter quite a bit as far as customer perception goes. "
Way to confuse the topic. customer perception has nothing to do with what MS has to do or not. They can ignore customer perception as much as they want. Probably not a smart thing to do but it's their decision.
"Right, because that is both technically easy and financially feasible..."
Right, because it's much easier to blame MS than the ones who are actually "forcing" you to upgrade.