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By obsoleting quickly old versions of the OS and stop releasing security patches.
They could even create date limited OSes.

So you're advocating that they decrease support and degrade the OS further to force upgrades? As an Apple shareholder, I fully approve. I'm sure that most Linux fans would be equally happy about that.

My company is currently transitioning from XP to Seven only because XP will stop being supported next year.

That's because the new versions of Windows did not offer features or functionality that gave your company a reason to upgrade.

Of course, it only concern enterprises. Home PCs are never upgraded and it is an endangered specie.

Macs are upgraded. Want to know which version of OS X has the largest installed base? It's the most recent one -- Mountain Lion. That's because Apple charges a reasonable price and makes upgrades that improve the user experience.

Enhancing the OS ? Nobody cares. The OS does not exist, a PC is a thingy for running Office and IE.

I switched from the PC to the Mac because the Windows OS simply changed without actually improving. Bad and outdated ideas continued to be proliferated from version to version. This is coming from someone who started using Windows back in the 2.0 days.

Want to know when an OS exists? It exists when the user's computer becomes infected with malware. It exists when his hard drive crashes and he realizes that he can't recover because Windows has no backup comparable to Time Machine. It exists when his Windows computer starts taking ten minutes to boot. It exists when an application that ran two months ago no longer runs now and he has no idea if it's due to an overwritten DLL, a corrupt registry, or some OS update that. It exists when he's in a hurry to shut off his PC and Windows decides that it's going to spend fifteen minutes installing updates. It exists when every time he powers one, the system blue-screens and he has to pay "The Geek Squad" $200 only to have them reformat his hard drive and reinstall the OS.

Linux users upgrade. OS X users upgrade. Windows users don't. Because Windows upgrades are too expensive, usually require hardware upgrades, and, in some cases, have even required reformatting the hard drive. And for all of that effort, they really don't reward with actual improvements that justify the cost, time, and effort.

Edited 2013-08-25 21:37 UTC

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