They have new competition from browsers and mobile os's. They can't afford to NOT adopt a go forward model.
If operating systems are supposed to compete with browsers -- then they will need to adopt an update model like browsers, or mobile oses.
If you are going to whine then perhaps you ought to hold Mozilla and Chrome to the same standards and demand they backport previous features like webrtc, h264 etc.
It's substantially more effort and slows things down. The one thing Microsoft can't do is slow down, they need to speed up if they have any hopes of remaining relevant.
I for one would like to see a unified microsoft release stack that was operating system,.net framework, ie, direct x, etc. released bi-yearly or perhaps even quarterly.
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They have new competition from browsers and mobile os's. They can't afford to NOT adopt a go forward model. If operating systems are supposed to compete with browsers -- then they will need to adopt an update model like browsers, or mobile oses. If you are going to whine then perhaps you ought to hold Mozilla and Chrome to the same standards and demand they backport previous features like webrtc, h264 etc. It's substantially more effort and slows things down. The one thing Microsoft can't do is slow down, they need to speed up if they have any hopes of remaining relevant. I for one would like to see a unified microsoft release stack that was operating system, .net framework, ie, direct x, etc. released bi-yearly or perhaps even quarterly.