Really the forced obsolescence needs to stop. There is 0 reason why everyone needs a new OS every year. Its not like anything fundamental to computing has changed in the past two decades since the advent of 64-bit PCs and SMP.
Sure, you might need some new drivers for USB+1 or a GPU, but for machines that run the same hardware there really isn't a reason that something like a XHCI driver shouldn't be able to work on every single version of windows since 2000 if MS cared enough (and linux is even more shameful).
Frankly OS vendors have gotten away with murder for far to long, and if we are going to start mandating lifecycles then the OS vendors shouldn't be the limiting factor (AKA 20+ year OS lifecycles should be mandatory) rather HW efficiency perf or just plain failure rates should be the limiting factor.
AKA Your an OS vendor and there is a security bug, your on the hook for fixing it until every single piece of HW it was sold with has reached its useful end of life. Telling people oh you have to upgrade to the version that requires 10x the system resource to run a sprinkler system (or whatever) and requires a new PC is good for business selling HW but bad for literally every other person on the planet.
Sure, you might need some new drivers for USB+1 or a GPU, but for machines that run the same hardware there really isn't a reason that something like a XHCI driver shouldn't be able to work on every single version of windows since 2000 if MS cared enough (and linux is even more shameful).
Frankly OS vendors have gotten away with murder for far to long, and if we are going to start mandating lifecycles then the OS vendors shouldn't be the limiting factor (AKA 20+ year OS lifecycles should be mandatory) rather HW efficiency perf or just plain failure rates should be the limiting factor.
AKA Your an OS vendor and there is a security bug, your on the hook for fixing it until every single piece of HW it was sold with has reached its useful end of life. Telling people oh you have to upgrade to the version that requires 10x the system resource to run a sprinkler system (or whatever) and requires a new PC is good for business selling HW but bad for literally every other person on the planet.