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Does it drive sales though? Windows XP remained popular long after Vista was introduced. It was seen as stable and familiar. I guess the difference is that in the Apple ecosystem, you don't have much choice over which OS version you use. Apple tends to keep users on the latest version that the hardware supports.


Looks like the currently 3 versions of mac OS are supported. current is macos 15, macos 13-14 are supported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_os#Timeline_of_releases

macos 13 supports hardware back to 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Ventura#Supported_hardwa...

looks like only 2 versions of Windows is supported. current is windows 11 and windows 10 support ends in October. of course, windows 10 was released in 2015 so comparing version support isnt a fair comparison.


People stuck with XP because Vista was slow and buggy.




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