korovev wrote:
Something to keep in mind is that Apple is mainly a consumer-oriented hardware maker, while Microsoft is a business-oriented software maker; Apple’s main software is iTunes, while Microsoft’s main software is Office.
With Boot Camp in the picture, Apple can claim that their hardware have the widest support for gaming (graphic card support aside); and it isn’t surprising that Microsoft goes to great lengths to keep backward compatibility, but not because of gaming.
If Apple is mainly for consumers and Microsoft is mainly business oriented, then why are so many companies marketing their consumer products to people running a business oriented OS?
korovev wrote:
Losing support for 32-bit software isn’t that much of an issue for current software; the real problem is with older software that won’t or cannot be rebuilt for 64-bit (and software based on libraries and frameworks that only exist on Windows, but that’s beyond the topic).

Could have sworn there was a thread around here for that somewhere...
korovev wrote:
As an aside, any words from GOG?
Nada.