Rather than talking about backward-compatibility, enterprise now has to embrace forward-compatibility, designing systems based on new technology to meet evolving user needs and creating customer value.

FORBES: The Value Of An 'Outside-In' Strategy

As Apple showed during its iPhone 5 launch, when the company announced a major change to its dock connector, Apple prefers to move technology forward rather than maintain compatibility, and corporate customers are deeply concerned with compatibility.

FORBES: Google Can't Have It Both Ways

If Google can work on unifying the platform and increasing compatibility across the myriad of devices in the wild, perhaps Android gamers can look forward to more of this behavior.

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Backwards compatibility has been a sore subject for some gamers but Microsoft's Don Mattrick says the company is looking forward, not back.

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