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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 reasonably well, but the software is obsolete and difficult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.

	Whereas my old PC (about five years old now) works fine and has
fully up to date software (OS and applications) that also works fine and
does the right thing with 30 year old data files (my oldest) as well as ones
from today. I've had a consistent UI of my choice for over twenty years now.

> Note that IBM provided old system compatibility going back 40 years.
> Would it kill the PC industry to provide that?  

	I could quite easily use the data files I was using 40 years ago -
if I still had them. I can certainly compile and run 40 year old source
code.

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

	The main thing I notice is that the web browser takes an ever
increasing proportion of the resources - at some point I will have to
upgrade this workstation to something that can take more memory just to
keep the browser happy.

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