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Chain of Fools 2017 - Every windows version upgraded through

TheRasteri · 254.9K views · 2017-03-14 · 9:51

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Overview

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.

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HN cites it as a demonstration of Windows' long backwards compatibility.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2017–2021

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Demoscene & retrocomputingOperating systems & kernels
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stordoff · 2021-05 · Reference

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]

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GSimon · 2018-02 · Reference

> 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.

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trunchbull · 2017-04 · Reference

It's a similar story with Windows, due to continuous backwards compatibility as demonstrated in videos such as: [VIDEO]

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