content: That is why Microsoft is jumping on the Windows as a Service, they want to have a drumbeat to order people when to buy a new PC.  That is why Microsoft is jumping on the Windows as a Service, they want to have a drumbeat  to order people to buy new software.  Windows is not interested in backwards compatibility anymore, expect your software to be broken after a forced update. Also Windows can't be backwards compatible anymore, they built forced advertisement and forced spyware in the very core of the OS. It is now part of the OS, it can't be undone anymore even if Microsoft wants it.  Microsoft as a company is dead, in a couple of years some Chinese company will buy it. Its OS is too crippled to be recycled.