Re: Windows vista will leave too many people behind.

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GO wrote:
Wow, you're still rambling on about the use of the word "force".
If you look back to my first post in this thread I clearly stated
my use of the word. Even in my last post I explained how I was
using the word. But again, this was not the main point of *my*
post(s). Feel free to review my earlier posts and and if you have
any questions or need any clarifications on what I meant then I
will gladly continue this discussion. But you and "the others"
continuing to focus on a single word is just wasting time.


Single-word BS...

I read your rant...

"MS may not necessarily force people to upgrade but they sure make things
difficult for those that don't, especially if you're a PC gamer."

You choose to play games and use software that work on a certain OS...
Microsoft did not make you...

You purchased hardware because it worked on a certain OS.
Because a manufacturer of a product chose not to make it work in Vista - how
can you blame Microsoft?

Microsoft is not making you upgrade to Vista - you and... well - let me
repeat it once more as you don't seem to ever respond/comprehend it...

If you are being 'forced' by anything - it is your choice of
lifestyle and interaction with others - I cannot see any other
'force' making you get Windows Vista. Hell - you don't even have
to use a Microsoft OS - no one is *forcing* you to do that.

You made the choice to play the games that only work on whatever OS with
whatever extras installed on it. It may have been because you wanted to do
what all your friends were or because you just thought it looked cool or
whatever - but in the end - it was *your choice* to play the game and the
game maker's choice to use whatever technology limits it to whatever
OS/extras... *Might* it work on another OS? Sure - but if you say it will,
you lay claim and responsibility and you must support it on said OS - and if
you do not support the OS any longer, why would you support something that
runs on it?

In other words - the only thing Microsoft did was provide a new platform -
maybe their game design department decided to utilize just that platform -
but so will lots of other game makers - because (perhaps) it is better.

Sure - there is 'absolutely no reason' why MS couldn't continue releasing
things for Windows 2000 or any other previous OS - other than it defies
common sense to keep supporting a product you told users from the get-go
would not be supported after a given date. If you continue using said OS -
that is your choice... But given you knew there was no support for it and
when that support would end from the beginning - whining gets you no where.

Things will *never* be supported forever.
From a business sense stand-point, it would be moronic.
From a common sense stand-point, consumers should know better than to expect
it.

*You* supposedly choose what you do/do not do.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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