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! Windows 7 Sucks
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DanS wrote: "BillW50" wrote in : In , Tom Lake wrote: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , Mortimer writes: No, I would say it _is_ Microsoft's, for making an OS (or OS variant) which can't use older drivers. Why should hardware manufacturers have to keep producing new drivers (especially for kit they no longer make - don't know if that's the case in this case)? Why should MS (or ANY OS maker) support all old hardware ad infinitum? In order to advance the OS, keep it able to use the latest hardware and keep it secure, some things must be left behind or you'd end up with a huge, ungainly mess. If the manufacturer doesn't support the newest OS, then MS certainly doesn't have the resources to write drivers for every piece of obsolete equipment out there. Tom L In the early days, an OS was screwed big time if it didn't support the legacy factor. You can have the world's greatest OS ever seen, but it is totally worthless if it doesn't support the past. Same is true today. If you burn bridges as you go, you will always lose. "In the early days"....of what... teletypes and ASCII only printers ? Do today's printers even have an ASCII mode anymore whe copy file.txt lpt1 actually prints the text file ? Who's burning bridges here ? The printer mfg's, not MS. Actually Microsoft is burning bridges here. There is no good reason why you can't use a Windows 95 printer driver under Windows 7. Have you ever written a printer driver for Windows before Dan? I have. And in the past, Microsoft didn't break older printer drivers. But those were people at Microsoft who had learned those hard lessons before. Nowadays Microsoft has new programmers who are naive about such lessons. Since most of the old people at Microsoft has retired. The new replacements just don't know any better. And I see Microsoft getting into trouble because of this. Even Microsoft had to layoff people in recent times because of this (the first time in history). I'm sure the layoffs were just like every other company on Earth, the economy..... In today's world, people can't live without computers. Far different than just a few decades earlier. And computers are not going away soon. And if Microsoft can't convince the masses that newer is better, then they have to have layoffs. Just the same as it was decades ago. Remember WordStar and Lotus? The economy was great back then but they couldn't convince the masses either. ....not anything to do with whatever you're going on about above....or below. Everything to do with it actually. As Microsoft had to learn the lessons of becoming successful just like everybody did, or die. And Microsoft learned and survived. Although they have retired and now there is a bunch of new people who are clueless about being successful. And if they don't learn the lessons quick, they will drive Microsoft into the ground. And it isn't going to get better for Microsoft until they relearn this lesson. And if they don't... well either Linux or the Mac (or something unknown to us today) will just take over. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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