Hi Dark, That's true, but that's mainly because the majority of situations in which backward-compatibility outside the slow-moving blindness market is enterprises. Most home users who buy a new computer use word processors, web browsers, email clients, and games. To elaborate on the games since this is a gaming list *grins*, most games now are either online or written in a modern programming language, so backward-compatibility with VB or other old technologies isn't a huge issue in the consumer market.
On 12/12/11, john <[email protected]> wrote: > Problem with xp mode is that it only works on win7 pro or > ultimate, no home premium users, which is most of what (at least > as far as I know) is being sold in computer shops, using Best BUy > Buy as my basis. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Kenny <[email protected] > To: Gamers Discussion list <[email protected] > Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:31:44 -0330 > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] plans for an updated Lone Wolf > > Hi Dark, > Before you make that argument, you should probably do a bit of > research. Windows 7 includes Windows XP mode, which is a > licensed, > virtual copy of Windows XP. This should solve any problems with > software compatibility that might exist between the two operating > systems. > > To answer your second point, that's great that you have a SNES > and can > play older games. However, I've never seen you post any messages > to > the list accusing Nintendo of not caring about their customers > because > you can't play GameCube or Wii games with your SNES. > > > > On 12/12/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex. > > But if microsoft care so much about customers, why don't they > have any > options to extend backwards compatibility of products? for > instance a > licenced microsoft virtual machine? > > Frankly, the reason they had to extend xp support is simply > because vista > was buggy as heck for several years and thus new xp machines > were being > bought as late as 2010. If microsoft had dropped support for > what the > majority of users use, people would go over to mac or other os > and they'd > lose sales. > > I don't really understand this business about "technology moves > move with > it" > > I repeat, I have my snes, which is now close to 20 years old. I > keep it > because I like the games on it. > > The fact that something is "new technology" has no real > applicability to > myself or probably to several other people as well if it doesn't > actually > let us do the things we want. > > A computer is afterall just a tool. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Kenny" <[email protected] > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected] > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 5:27 PM > 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! 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