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You can run Windows 10 on a Dell Optiplex 620 (released in 2005) as long as it has enough RAM and it runs well actually. That said, Windows-based machines are much more flexible about what version of OS they will run.
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However, it doesn't run all that great and requires installing additional drivers to make it work properly and Apple knows this, so they just block it altogether. Apple prohibits this and will not let you do it as an "update", but with some very creative tinkering, people do it.
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You can *technically* run OSX 10.12 (and even higher) on a 2007 iMac or Mac Pro. The inability to run a version of OSX on a previous generation of harsware is completely a manufacturer block to an extent. The hardware from 3 years ago will still support the operating systems currently out (that's fact) but Apple will stop "allowing" your 3+ year old machine to recieve OSX updates. Apple, for example, cuts off OS support for their hardware extremely prematurely in my opinion. Now, some vendors "push" the envelope much harder than they have to. If we never had to advance and keep up with the times, computers would still be limited to 640KB of RAM and hard drives measured in megabytes, not gigabytes or terabytes. Microsoft, in their effort to support current technologies (both hardware and software) has to change the way their operating system works internally in order to provide that support.
It's the same reason that your old version of Quattro that you ran on Windows 3.1 back in 1994 won't run on Windows 10.
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From a business standpoint, it makes no sense to continue supporting a version of their software that will *not* run on new(er) computers. It's not the software vendor's fault that you want to use a technology that didn't exist in that time, but it'll be their problem when someone complains that they can't use it. That's what happens when a software vendor maintains support for substantially older hardware/software platforms. They just know they bought software that doesn't work like the version their friend bought and installed on a newer computer works. The end user has no idea what tech support is trying to explain. And the circle of entitlement for the latest and greatest features on antique systems continues. "Why can't my legacy version support files over 2GB?" Well, your computer from 1996 uses FAT32 file system, which physically can't handle a single file greater than 2GB. Eventually, their "new" version and their "legacy" version will operate differently, adding confusion for the end users. If a newer operating system uses X version of API to support newer features and your previous generation operating system lacks X version of that API, the software vendor either has to A) cripple their software to not use that new version of API (if the new operating system will allow an older API to be used, which lots don't) or B) continue to pay their development staff to write and develop updates for a separate version of their software to work on just the older version of operating system you're running).
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On the flip side, software companies have the choice of what operating systems they will fund their development staff to continue to write code for. That is completely your choice, and I will agree with you 100% on that. You are correct, you do have the right to choose which operating system to use.
Sorry to say it, but you'll eventually be left behind if you don't keep up with the times. This is simply the price you pay by using older systems and software, and that doesn't even take security issues into account. If you're no longer getting updates from the creator of an operating system, how can you expect other companies to continue supporting it. You didn't specify the version of OS X you're running, but the latest of the versions no longer supported by Dropbox, OS X 10.8, hasn't been supported by Apple since Autumn of 2015. That's just how it is, with any software company. As they improve their product to use newer technologies, older systems that can't support those technologies are left behind. Your old, no longer supported (by Apple) operating system isn't capable of running the developing technologies that Dropbox will use into the future. Having to support older operating systems holds back development. I've been loyally using this website for years and for them to basically be like you aren't important as a user any more because you don't have the latest tech, is a load of bull.
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