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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reasonably well, but the software is obsolete and difficult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?  

The PC industry actually DOES provide old system compatibility going
back 40 years.  Getting back to the 16-bit DOS era and beyond requires
using an emulator, which is no hardship given that you're running
about a thousand times the clock speed with multiple cores..  But that
given, I can boot up a CP/M session on my gaming rig and run 8-bit
Wordstar just fine (once I've hexedited the configuration file to
match the terminal that the emulator pretends to have).

>As mentioned, they upgrade and upgrade but really don't improve
>anything.

My newest machine can read my handwriting at least as well as the last
secretary I had and sometimes does what I tell it to do verbally.  It
also recognzes me when I boot it up.

However you talk about your "old PC physically works reasonably well
but the software is obsolete and difficult to use for many tasks since
it is no longer compatible".  With what is it not compatible that is
causing you problems?