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Article #623140Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Peter Flass
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:40
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:40
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > 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 reasonably well, but the software is obsolete and difficult 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. Obviously not windows, then. > >> 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. > -- Pete
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