<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neogodless</author><text>Within Windows 10, the updates really were versions in several significant ways.&lt;p&gt;- They have support end dates!&lt;p&gt;- Hardware support can vary between version (updates). I could not even get Windows 10 Build 1903 to boot with a newer GPU. I had to boot using the iGPU and update to 21H1, and then I could boot. Trying to install the driver on 1903, the installer said this version of Windows was not supported (!)&lt;p&gt;- The UI can be changed. Just one small example, early versions of Windows Hello did not support using a PIN to login. Later versions started to roll back all the pushes to use Cortana.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>I was really hoping that we were past having to think about different versions of Windows. Microsoft hyped Windows 10 as the &amp;#x27;last version of Windows&amp;#x27; and that&amp;#x27;s how it should be. But now we have to go through this stupid cycle again, wasting user and IT department time doing upgrades, as well as developer time worrying about version support.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 11 available on October 5</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I was hoping Windows 11 would be substantially different under-the-hood and not just rounded corners. I know backwards compatibility is Windows&amp;#x27; under-acknowledged killer feature, but there is a on of cruft and inefficiency that is included as a result. The &lt;i&gt;typical&lt;/i&gt; Windows user is not going to need to run programs from the 90&amp;#x27;s and 2000&amp;#x27;s. Why not make Windows 10 the compatibility focused platform and make 11 the slimmed down version? I suppose a &lt;i&gt;rough&lt;/i&gt; parallel would be how Apple transitioned to OS X.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>I was really hoping that we were past having to think about different versions of Windows. Microsoft hyped Windows 10 as the &amp;#x27;last version of Windows&amp;#x27; and that&amp;#x27;s how it should be. But now we have to go through this stupid cycle again, wasting user and IT department time doing upgrades, as well as developer time worrying about version support.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 11 available on October 5</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/</url></story>