Re: Windows vista will leave too many people behind.

yes and that is do to the short sitedness of many software
developers, improvments in software should make the computing
expirience easier, as should hardware upgrades, I remember playing
games that made a point of being backward compatible, when I went from
a 486 clone to a pentium clone all my old games which play just fine
before looked much better, when i increased my graphics card from 2meg
to 8megs the same games that worked fine before blazed in digetal
brilliance, .
having an old computer did not stop me from playing old games but
upgrading made the games like new.
and thats what I mean by upgrades should inhance the computing
expirience not constantly force you to have to go out and get a new
machine.


On Jan 25, 3:44 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What's the point of this whole thread?

Someone is always left behind in some way whenever anyone does anything new.

- There is not *always* backwards compatibility.
- It is up to not only the decision of the maker of said product - but also
of the products that are no longer supported to stay unsupported/unusable.
- It is also up to the makers of any product to decide what their product
will/won't do.
- It is up to the makers of any product to decide how long they will support
anything they make.
- And it is up to the end-consumer to decide what they will buy/utilize and
what they will not buy/utilize.

You don't want to go to Windows Vista? Don't.

You cannot seriously expect (although it has been stated in this thread)
anyone to support a product made 12+ years ago.
(The example was Windows 95 and its inability to run on a new laptop - that
isn't even likely purely a Microsoft 'fault', as it was likely driver issues
and the makers of said hardware just don't make drivers for 12 year old
computer OSes...)

Also - people keep saying that in the examples I gave - the changes were
slow and over time...
Hate to say it - but in many of them - they were the same length of time
that it took to go from Windows 95 to Windows Vista...
Not to mention that things do not exactly move as slowly (yet) in the
computer industry as it does in many other industries.

You make a product and support it until you die - unless you can get your
offspring to support it too...
That'd be your choice... But I'd bet that product is not software for ANY
operating system or ANY platform. ;-)

No one 'forces' your hand here.
You just cannot have your stale old cake and a little bit of new icing every
so often for the next 5-17 years...
Seems fair to me.

Don't want a cell phone - don't buy one.
Want a cell phone but don't want one that gets email - don't buy one.
Want a cell phone but don't want one that can surf the Internet - don't buy
one.
Still have your old bag celluar phone? Does it work? Yay!

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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