Seems plausible, and also just the sort of thing you'd never want to actually advertise (Windows 10! Because we didn't want to break your computer with Windows 9!). It feels maybe a bit too neat (and anonymous), but I'm not going to claim it's untrue.
(h/t +Doug Dunfee )
Originally shared by +Kirill Grouchnikov:
Remember that time when everybody [citation needed] was freaking out about Firefox or Chrome version hitting double digits (10) and theorizing how version.substring(0, 1) conditions would affect various javascript blocks?
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I'd say, who the hell is still using software from the late 90s early 2000s, but I know better.
That's an excellent reason, imho.
+Nick McIntosh If you told me a lot of that code is still in contemporary versions of apps, I'd absolutely believe it.
Even in 2014 I still occasionally here about misc Windows 98 machines performing critical functions in some weird little pocket of the world. Much sad
+Doug Dunfee Hell yes. All those accounting systems written with excel way back when.
I look at the .net code I'm writing today and think to myself, "In twenty years, some poor schmuck will be trying to keep this running."
Old systems never die — they just eventually get too expensive to keep running.
And now this:
http://cheezburger.com/8336345344
Lol. Isn't CBS' whole thing "TV for old people"? 🙂