[X4U] Re: Apple's move to Intel chips

[Michael Winter]

On Jun 9, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:

> Now that's the choice they've made  ut anytime you hear them try to  
> leave
> behind old unsupported hardware you'll hear the masses howl.

Well, if you've got a great product, and you continue support for the  
old for a reasonable time, let  them howl. Otherwise you get left  
behind by the competition. That's what's happening to MS now. Apple  
dropped 68k, users howled, Apple dropped the floppy, users howled,  
Apple dropped OS 9, users howled...

Sooner or later you have to cut the dead weight, or its going to drag  
you down. The way I look at it, MS's users with modern hardware  
should be howling about how MS supporting legacy hardware is costing  
them time and money in extra support for a bloated, hard to manage OS.

-Mike