On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 10:20:01 -0500, Mayayana wrote:

"PeterC" wrote

| OK, I'll risk excommunication: as an interim step, how does W8 compare
with
| W7 and W10?
| I couldn't find a news group for W8, which should tell me something.

Strange, isn't it? The same thing happened with
WinME. Microsoft disowned their baby and even
left it out of official documents. And everyone went
along with them -- without question, pronouncing
the disowned version to be unusable junk.
big snip
Thanks for this - I'd seen only odd bits of what you mention as I was
staying on XP as long as possible. Changed to W7 only because the old PC
just couldn't hack it any more.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway