Google roughly supports one version of their product on 2 OSs.
Microsoft supports all versions of all their products for 10years+ after release, integrated with a combination of all other products they have shipped in that same time-frame.
Needless to say, Microsoft needs to do more QA on their bug-fixes before they can safely release it to all customers without the risk of causing new issues.
It's easy for Google to be big in the mouth when they don't bother to support their existing customers properly.
Speaking of being big in the mouth: Did you know that Google isn't back-porting security fixes to older versions of Android either (only 2 last minor releases)? I guess supporting more than 40% of your user base is too much work.</sarcasm>
Guess which side my sympathy is leaning to in this case.
> Needless to say, Microsoft needs to do more QA on their bug-fixes before they can safely release it to all customers without the risk of causing new issues.
IIRC Microsoft also releases pre-versions of their patches to select customers so sysadmins can test the patch doesn't cause issues on their deployments.
Microsoft supports all versions of all their products for 10years+ after release, integrated with a combination of all other products they have shipped in that same time-frame.
Needless to say, Microsoft needs to do more QA on their bug-fixes before they can safely release it to all customers without the risk of causing new issues.
It's easy for Google to be big in the mouth when they don't bother to support their existing customers properly.
Speaking of being big in the mouth: Did you know that Google isn't back-porting security fixes to older versions of Android either (only 2 last minor releases)? I guess supporting more than 40% of your user base is too much work.</sarcasm>
Guess which side my sympathy is leaning to in this case.