Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jul 2008 05:10 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
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2005-07-08
Again, Microsoft had intended to release Vista four years earlier, with new features that would mean there would be applications that would require Vista. Vista, however, was late, and had most of it's original features during its early development planing dropped, so unlike XP vs Windows 9x, it did not have any applications being written for it with backwards compatibility problems. Microsoft's lack of new features, and hence improved OS longevity for their OS, is not because Microsoft wanted to be kinder to consumers than Apple. It's because Vista was a lot less than Microsoft had planned.