• rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, but Microsoft shouldn’t get credit for that. Windows only works with everything, because everything got built around it.

    Drivers are needed for every little bit of hardware, Intel very well might not have become the dominant architecture if Microsoft hadn’t picked it in the 80s.

    • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 hours ago

      Okay, but MacOS doesn’t work on everything because Apple doesn’t want it to. They want you to only use their devices, and only run their systems on them.

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      8 hours ago

      I mean, I didn’t make the chart, I’m just speaking on what the creator’s reasoning might be