Quote Originally Posted by jmcilhinney View Post
Backward compatibility is always a ball and chain. They could have chosen to support backward compatibility but it would have made implementing some of the desired features more difficult or impossible. There's something to gain and something to lose either way. They chose to go one way and not the other because they thought there was more to gain and less to lose that way.
I guess I'm just used to Microsoft being backwards-compatible with their stuff, like they have been with Windows.