From: David J Taylor on
"Val Hallah" <michaelnewport(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> windoze explorer does some strange things like...if you have deleted
> files, they still appear in the folder....

Never seen that in over a year of Windows-7.

David

From: David J Taylor on
"C J Campbell" <christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmail.com> wrote in
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> Windows is a "mature" (read, "obsolete") product that has been surpassed
> in every way by practically every other OS out there. Microsoft needs to
> scrap Windows and start from the ground up.
>
> --
> Waddling Eagle
> World Famous Flight Instructor

What? And make everyone buy their 3rd-party software again? No thanks!
One of Windows strengths has been its backwards compatibility over the
last 25 years.

David

From: Mr. Strat on
In article <4tedndKawpzyxbjRnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, Rich
<none(a)nowhere.com> wrote:

> Jobs is scum. His company is dirt. His computers are for retards and
> they and his other product's appeal rely on pure ignorance and a disdain
> for conservation.

How's that Windows ME and e-Machine workin' out for ya?
From: whisky-dave on

"David J Taylor" <david-taylor(a)blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> "C J Campbell" <christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmail.com> wrote in
> message
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> []
>> Windows is a "mature" (read, "obsolete") product that has been surpassed
>> in every way by practically every other OS out there. Microsoft needs to
>> scrap Windows and start from the ground up.
>>
>> --
>> Waddling Eagle
>> World Famous Flight Instructor
>
> What? And make everyone buy their 3rd-party software again? No thanks!
> One of Windows strengths has been its backwards compatibility over the
> last 25 years.

Is it ?, I;m sure we've had lots of problems I remember the compatibility
problems between different versions of Word, and PowerPoint especially.
Then there's problems with IE8 that we haven't upgraded from IE7.


>
> David


From: J. Clarke on
On 6/28/2010 8:26 AM, whisky-dave wrote:
> "David J Taylor"<david-taylor(a)blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i06njr$14g$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>> "C J Campbell"<christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmail.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:201006261646368930-christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmailcom...
>> []
>>> Windows is a "mature" (read, "obsolete") product that has been surpassed
>>> in every way by practically every other OS out there. Microsoft needs to
>>> scrap Windows and start from the ground up.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Waddling Eagle
>>> World Famous Flight Instructor
>>
>> What? And make everyone buy their 3rd-party software again? No thanks!
>> One of Windows strengths has been its backwards compatibility over the
>> last 25 years.
>
> Is it ?, I;m sure we've had lots of problems I remember the compatibility
> problems between different versions of Word, and PowerPoint especially.
> Then there's problems with IE8 that we haven't upgraded from IE7.

What does Word have to do with Windows? Word 97 works fine on Windows 7
you know.

Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 do break a few very, very old applications,
and some games and whatnot that attempt to circumvent the OS for
hardware access break, but the main problem that is encountered with
older software is that Vista and Windows 7 have the security locked down
by default, so you have to tweak the security settings and possibly
provide user access to specific files or folders to get them to
work--the developers have known this was coming for at least 15 years
and have chosen to dump everything into a system folder anyway.