🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2018-04-24, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2018-04-24, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <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 reasonably well, but the software is obsolete and difficult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.
>
> *applause*

Stan Kelly-Bootle, in "The Devil's DP Dictionary", coined the term
"sidegrade" to describe these not-really-upgrades, emphasizing that
there is usually some ulterior motive.

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