Hi Tom, Dark, and others, I am not sure that anyone is misrepresenting your position, Dark. You want tangible benefits to a very small set of criteria, but life is made up of a combination of both tangibles and intangibles. For instance, perhaps you don’t spell check because you are using XP. A benefit to using a Mac is that the spell checker is built in and system wide, meaning that you can take advantage of it anywhere with no additional cost. I’m not sure if later versions of Windows have this, but I know for along time Microsoft wanted that to be a premium feature available only in Office. However, that benefit would not impact you directly, only those of us reading your messages. It would be, to you at least, an intangible benefit that would impact how you are perceived by others. However, it does not fall into your very narrow parameters, and so therefore you discount it.
In the case of those clinging to XP such as yourself, whether out of stubbornness or necessity, the biggest concern I have is security. Perhaps it will take a major catastrophe, such as a loss of data, identity theft, loss of funds in one’s bank account, to wake some of you up. It won’t happen to everyone, but the more blasé you are about the security benefits of upgrading, the more likely you are to be one of those victims. But again, this is an intangible that you will not care about until you are one of them. It is one thing to decide that now is not the time for you to upgrade. That’s your decision. I think Tom and I are only pointing out good reasons you may wish to that you have dismissed based on misinformation or flawed logic. On Dec 18, 2013, at 9:36 AM, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > I was probably thinking of vista, since I do know when getting my desktop > repared in 2008 I very much didn't want a machine with newer windows, which > was one other advantage of going to a local custom manufacturer since all > the main shops like Pc world were the slaves of microsoft and ramming newer > versions down people's throats. > > Well I have said under what circumstances I'll upgrade. Yes, I can run xp > in a virtual machine and I am glad there is that option, but if the newer os > doesn't actually bennifit me, well why have the hassle? > > to be honest I can understand that someone like yourself who cares about all > the technical stuff is interested in the newer os, but I am getting slightly > irritated with having the position I'm in missrepresented or missunderstoo. I > do not think xp is the best thing there ever will be, neither do I reffuse > to upgrade, I merely don't see the point at the moment, that is all, and I > fully expect in the future that this will change when a new os actually make > a practical difference that is worth the hassle. > > That is another reason I spent time playing with Windows 7 and I'd like to > try mac and windows 8 in the same way, although at this point in time I have > a sneaking suspicion that it will be a hardware not a software change such as > touch screen control or something like. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
