Hello, Actually, The blindness community attacked Windows XP just as much because it was not Windows 9X, and Windows was attacked just as much because it was not Dos.
The truth is, people like to bitch when things change, and they take it personally. The world is out to get them. In other words, they like to whine a lot. For blind people who have been trained to use a computer by rote rather than learning how to explore and figure out a system, this is only worse. The fact is, times, technology, everything changes; and it is not comfortable for those who learned an earlier way of doing things. People who never learned the old habits, on the other hand, do not need to unlearn their old habits and just learn it. They complain as well, though. Just spend some time with kids at school to see what I am talking about. The fact is, change is the only constant in the universe. It is the thing we can count on. As far as I am concerned, this is a very good thing. It keeps things from becoming stagnent.. David Chittenden, MSc, DRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 14/12/2011, at 13:13, Hayden Presley <[email protected]> wrote: > HI,AN > D it seems to me this community has a double standard. Updating is bad, when > they decide it is. But I hear everyone prasing XP. Hmmm...I wonder how MS > made XP? Possibly, it was an update? > > > Best Regards, > Hayden > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dallas O'Brien > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 6:09 PM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] new technology? Balogna! - Re: plans for an updated > Lone Wolf > > besides, as complex a system windows is, they will never have a bug free > operating system. thats not possible, with the pure amount of lines of > code. so no, that won't ever happen. and yes, 7 is more stable. because > they had time to sort a lot of things out. > dallas > > > On 14/12/2011 09:53, Charles Rivard wrote: >> Was Vista better than XP? Is Windows 7 better than Vista? Am I right >> in that Windows 7 came out to be Vista with the bugs worked out? And >> was Microsoft already working on Windows 8 when 7 came out? One thing >> I would like to see, if Microsoft insists on continually coming out >> with a new OS time and time again, is that they quit rushing them to >> market before the bugs are worked out, and give us a solid stable >> product that has thoroughly been tested and proven to be stable and >> reliable, rather than a junky troublesome buggy product. I know the >> task would be massive, and I know it would take an enormous amount of >> time and effort, but it would sure do a lot to regain the credibility >> they once had, and it would also be more readily received by the >> customers. >> >> --- >> Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" >> <[email protected]> >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:28 PM >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] new technology? Balogna! - Re: plans for an >> updated Lone Wolf >> >> >>> Hi Charles and all, >>> >>> If you want to make that argument consider this. When Windows Vista >>> came out Windows XP was already six years old, and it introduced a lot >>> of new graphics technology that wasn't possible on the hardware specs >>> in 2001. Both Windows 7 and Windows 8 use the exact same hardware >>> requirements as Windows Vista, and actually run better on the same >>> hardware specs. So your argument of having to replace your hardware >>> every time Microsoft upgrades doesn't hold water. I really urge you >>> guys to research your facts before making baseless arguments like this >>> because Microsoft does not change system requirements every two years >>> or for every Windows upgrade like you suggest. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> >>> On 12/12/11, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Another thing about new technology--Microsoft's Windows in >>>> particular: I >>>> buy a computer to do tasks, not to run the operating system. If I >>>> have to >>>> buy a new PC because my old one doesn't have enough CPU power, it >>>> can't be >>>> loaded with enough RAM, the hardware isn't supported by the new OS, >>>> and I >>>> need to move along with technology, I will do so. However, 2 years >>>> down the >>>> road, before the bugs have been worked out of this OS I bought the >>>> new PC to >>>> be able to operate, Microsoft comes out with a new, more demanding >>>> OS. Two >>>> years later, another one that is more demanding. Two years later, >>>> another >>>> one that is more demanding. Before I know it, thanks only to >>>> Microsoft, I >>>> have another obsolete computer. I need to buy another one to handle >>>> the new >>>> technology. 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