Chain of Fools 2017 - Every windows version upgraded through
TheRasteri0 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
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TheRasteri upgrades a single PC through every Windows version, from early releases through Windows 10, testing that old software keeps running. It is an updated version of the Chain of Fools experiment.
HN cites it as a demonstration of Windows' long backwards compatibility.
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The article is not coming up for me, but here's Google's cache: [LINK] a direct link to the video: [VIDEO] and a link to the original 2011 experiment: [LINK]
It's a similar story with Windows, due to continuous backwards compatibility as demonstrated in videos such as: [VIDEO]
> Apple neither forces OS updates, nor forces app updates In practice they do. I recently deleted a timelapse app from my new phone (se) because the app wouldn't work with the new update. That may not be the best airtight example as the new OS update I did 'choose' to upgrade to which did somehow break the app, and the creator didn't release an updated version for the new OS, but in a real world scenario are you going to discontinue OS updates on a device you purchased months earlier for a few apps? Meanwhile there's decade old computers running windows xp that have no problems starting photoshop 7.0. There's also this video: [VIDEO] showing Windows upgrades from earliest versions to newest and software like excel being compatible from earliest versions onward.
Windows 1 to Windows 7: [LINK] (set colour schemes disappear at XP, but programs continue to work) Follow up - Windows 1 to Windows 10: [VIDEO]