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From: JimP
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:56
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:56
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:12:52 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 11:12:54 AM UTC-4, Dave Garland wrote: > >> Near as I could tell, the new MS versions were mostly a way to goad >> people into unnecessary "upgrades" and generate repeat sales. Some >> people just want the new shiny, and some were frightened when the >> popup appeared that said "if you save in the old format, you're >> probably going to break things". And some because people were sending >> them documents they couldn't open any more. > >Microsoft and the hardware makers followed the auto industry >model of planned obsolescence. My old PC physically works >reasonably well, but the software is obsolete and difficult >to use for many tasks since it is no longer compatible. > >Note that IBM provided old system compatibility going back 40 years. >Would it kill the PC industry to provide that? > >As mentioned, they upgrade and upgrade but really don't improve >anything. Several computer experts, that know of the inder workings of Windows than I do, told me the various upgrades of Windows are just patches that MS is selling as new versions'. I don't agree that all of Windows is like that, but it seems to me much of it is.
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