it was just an early april fools guys, chill
Considering that one of their gaming joysticks that gave feedback became obsolete when they didn't make drivers for it for later operating systems, I would have thought they would have
been out of the gaming peripherals business already without having to do anything.
Consumers are too forgiving.
Of course, they are reasonable, too. There are cases where hardware cannot be supported forever. Anything that could run with reasonable speed on a 4.77 MHz 8088 would not be Windows 7 - or even Windows 3.1. It's true that the 286 has a protected mode, but even supporting that is too much to expect.
However, making a platform as powerful as the 486DX obsolete is questionable. With Windows 3.11, the 486 DX was more than powerful enough to surf the web and check E-mail. A 90 MHz Pentium - with the floating-point division bug fixed - is comparable to the 360/195 supercomputer of 1969, but with over five times the speed and the ability to handle far more memory (the 360/195 topped out at 4 megabytes).
Of course, our more modern and more powerful computers do provide useful functions, like real-time video. Given how cheap microprocessor power is - compared to the metal box and power supply in a computer - there's no reason not to have computers as amazingly powerful as they are now. But we need better ways to put that power to fuller use.
