Apple has always been like this, there are other options when backwards compatibility is relevant feature.
I was _so_ hopeful when I asked the devs to revive the Nx-UI code so that FH/MX could have been a native "Cocoa" app....
Freehand still works on Windows 11? I’m happy for you, I never found a true replacement for it.
> a digital revival of a hot metal typeface created by my favourite type designer/illustrator who passed in 1991, but whose widow was gracious enough to give me permission to revive
Any reason you haven’t shared the name of the designer or the typeface? That story sounds interesting, I’d really welcome learning more.
The designer/typeface are Warren Chappell's Trajanus, and his unreleased Eichenauer --- I read _The Living Alphabet_ (and his cousin Oscar Ogg's _The 26 Letters_) when I was very young, and met him briefly on a school field trip back when he was Artist-in-Residence at UVA and did a fair bit of research in their Rare Book Room, and even had a sample of the metal type (missing one character unfortunately).
It is currently stalled at my having scanned and drawn up one of each letter at each size which I have available, but only having two letters, _N_ and _n_ in all sizes --- probably shouldn't worry that much about the optical axis, since it was cut in metal in one master size and the other sizes made using a pantograph, but there were _some_ adjustments which I'd like to preserve. There is a digital version of Trajanus available, but it's based on the phototype. I've been working at recreating each character using METAFONT, encompassing the optical size variation in that programmatically, but it's been slow going (and once I'm done, I then have to work out how to make it into outlines....)
Granted, that's less of an issue now with most new SW being written in JS to run in any browser but old institutions like banks, insurances, industrial, automation, retail chains, etc still run some ancient Java/C#/C++ programs they don't want to, or can't update for reasons but it keeps the lights on.
Which is why I find it adorable when people in this bubble think all those industries will suddenly switch to Macs.
(Ironically, windows 11 + corporate bloatware made the laptops super laggy. Go figure.)
https://www.accio.com/business/operating-system-market-share...
Might, because the number is even less, when we differenciate between companies and home use.
That may be surprising for people here, but technology is not synonymous with software.
Only if you count food delivery apps, crypto Ponzi scheme unicorns, Ad-services and SaaS start-ups as "tech-forward" exclusively, because you're omitting a lot of other tech companies your daily life in the civilized world depends on, which operate mainly on Windows, like where I work now.
Is designing and building semiconductors not "technology"? Or MRI machines? Or jets? Or car engines?