>Mark my words - Windows 12 will severely impede direct installation even of an user-space software, funnelling everyone to go through the store. That's the end goal and we will all be there in a couple of years, whether we want it or not.
People have been saying that forever. At our company we rely on windows backwards compat to run older commercial software which has saved tens of thousands of dollars for us. It seems to me like people are not exposed to a large swath of the computing landscape that uses industry specific commercial software that isn't going anywhere.
Also who are the "lemmings" in your analogy? Hopefully you're not referring to normal people who make rational decisions based on their needs.
People have been saying that forever. At our company we rely on windows backwards compat to run older commercial software which has saved tens of thousands of dollars for us. It seems to me like people are not exposed to a large swath of the computing landscape that uses industry specific commercial software that isn't going anywhere.
Also who are the "lemmings" in your analogy? Hopefully you're not referring to normal people who make rational decisions based on their needs.