How would anything ever advance if you had to continually support progressively older hardware and software?

DxDiag can be used to test if the audio hardware supports hardware mixing.

Two distinct editions of Windows XP were released to support 64-bit hardware.

Windows phone needs to support higher-end hardware, stat.

(its predecessor having been built on Windows Server 2003) and only supports x86-64 hardware.

Vendors don't support specific hardware and software in perpetuity.

The software now supports 64-bit hardware and the Macintosh operating system.

Users who don't have supported hardware will be bumped into a fallback mode without compositing.

And until that's done, Linux will be once again handicapped in the marketplace because it doesn't support existing hardware.

But I did choose a laptop with very well supported hardware.