Of course, there are people who still use 98 today, myself being
one of them. As a matter of fact, when my win 7 machine crashed
a while back, it took me well under an hour to be able to do all
of my mandatory things on 98. The only thing I really had to do
was dig up some flash drivers, and put in a little more ram. That
98 machine serves as a handy backup now, as well as a large disk
formatting tool.----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Kenny <[email protected]
To: Gamers Discussion list <[email protected]
Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:57:39 -0330
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] plans for an updated Lone Wolf
Hi Dark,
Again, I really think you're misrepresenting Microsoft here.
Microsoft
actually spends a huge amount of resources supporting older
products.
For example, one of the reasons Windows Vista was delayed as much
as
it was is because MS temporarily stopped its development in order
to
fix major security problems with Windows XP. If MS really behaved
as
you described, they would have just released Vista two years
early and
dropped XP. Instead, they've actually extended XP's support to
2014,
ecause they understand that it's very popular. Of course, by
then, XP
will be 13 years old. Imagine running Windows 98 today. It
wouldn't be
a very pleasant experience. Technology moves on, and we need to
at
some point move along with it.
If that's a problem, there are a few DOS operating systems that
have
been in development for several decades. Since unlike Windows,
DOS
operating systems are very simple, you shouldn't have too many
bugs to
worry about...
I'm exaggerating here of course, but if that's the attitude most
people had, we'd still be using teletype machines and command
prompts.
On 12/12/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Agreed William, this is just what I mean.
As far as I've ever found out microsoft is frankly just
concerned with their
bank balance and don't give a dam about their customers accept
as a
statistic.
And lets not get on to their production methods, what they pay
the people
who actually assemmble! pc parts or the like.
The only reason I use windows is for convenience sinse most
things run on
it, which is I suspect why ninety percent of people do, not
necessarily
because I actually like microsoft at all.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Willem Venter" <[email protected]
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] plans for an updated Lone Wolf
Hi dark.
Microsoft only invests development time where they stand to gain
or
lose money. For the most part, even dropping support for vb was
based
on the fact that they were forcing developers to switch to
vb.net so
they could sell them a new set of development tools. The basic
programming syntax stayed the same, but they changed the
developement
libraries to not be the same as those used with vb6. They did
improve
the software with vb.net, but vb6 wasn't making them enough
money to
justify fixing the security wholes and bugs for vb6.
Assisting developers or users of code to run a 10 year old
program
does not gain them much sales, so they will invest the
development
time somewhere else. This is also part of what drives the
changes to
the user interfaces. They tell their customers "see it looks
different, so it is new" where as most of the code is reused
over
windows versions.
I agree with those who said that for innovation to happen we
need
change, but change does not always indicate something better.
On 12/12/11, Dallas O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote:
actually, the better codes, = better gaming possibilities. so
yes, it
makes a different.
dallas
On 12/12/2011 23:13, dark wrote:
Frankly dallas where games are concerned, I couldn't give a
monkies
how good the newer codes are.
As I said, I don't really care about how powerful or anything
else a
system is, I care about what I can do with it.
That's why i stil have a snes, sinse I can play all the game i
rather
like on it, despite it being no where near up to the standard of
todays games' consoles.
As I said, I just would like microsoft to acknolidge this,
perhaps
with a compatibility pack option that could be downloaded for
those
who needed it.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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