As a point of comparison, Microsoft ships its OS across a variety of manufacturers and largely keeps it maintained across them (give or take some exceptions like enterprise environments & the like).

Even unlocked Android phones purchased independently of carriers have inconsistent lengths of support, so it doesn’t seem to be entirely a result of carriers, so…What happened here?

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    Did a computer bought to run windows 95 run XP?

    yes

    Did a computer bought for 98 run Vista?

    yes

    shit the brainwash is complete,i guess you are too far gone

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      XP was based on the NT kernel while 95 was using DOS. You’re just plain wrong. Spec wise it would not have worked.

      And a computer built for 98 sure as hell did not reach the requirements to run Vista. Hell, many XP computers struggled and were not allowed to upgrade.

      You’re just plain wrong.