Hi Tom.
As I have said before I don't tend to bother with upgrades unless they do
something for me. the only programs I tend to upgrade are avg antivirus and
pc tuneup (for obvious reasons), and supernova whhich works out as less
sinse sub version upgrades, eg, 12-5 to 12-6 are free, and main versions
(which come out roughly every two years), cost about 120 dollars, and aren't
always necessary at that.
while I could get used to using say jedit instead of notepad, there are some
windows programs I'd be really not happy to be without. One for instance is
winamp. i do not use windows media player for anything accept ripping cds
(indeed I find it's interface rathr irritating), winamp I am very fond of,
particularly it's ability to use plugins for different formats of game music
such as spc, jim, psf et etc.
I would! miss winamp a lot. then for dvd playing I use a program called
power dvd, which has various advantages over windows media player. The
version i have is about four years old, but does the job fine and I've never
seen a reason to upgrade it (indeed the newer version when i tried it had a
much less accessible interface).
I suppose generally it comes back to the fact that for me, a computer is a
tool, and I'm more interested in what I can do with it, than the computer
itself. this is precisely the same reason I've not upgraded to windows 7,
sinse it would for all practical purposes just cause considderable annoyence
with the interface, incompatibility with older software etc, and do me
little to no practical good.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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