Derek Martin wrote:
> I agree... I don't think it's deception, I think it's just
> stupid... But then I've never really thought well of their
> naming scheme, since they started using years to name their
> products. To me it's a lot like telling the consumers "this
> won't be any good next year" (which it turns out in many cases,
> ends up being true, because everyone insists on upgrading as
> soon as the new version comes out.. I'm mainly referring to
> Office here).
I would have to agree here that it isn't deception, just poor marketing.
M$ has NEVER had a "standard" naming convention. The first version of NT
was 3.x. Windows version numbers were all over the place, and they
finally landed at WFW.
> I've long been a fan of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and as
> that applies to upgrading software, "if it still gets the job
> done, don't upgrade." This, of course, is not in Microsoft's
> best interest... they WANT you to upgrade every year (or every
> day if they can pull it off...)
eh, if it ain't broke, I usually don't even remember that it's there ;-)
M$'s point to the frequent upgrades is so thatpeople will see something
new and improved on a regular basis (so they think). Bill Gates tells
the world that "SP's and Hot Fixes aren't released to fix bugs, they are
relesed to introduce new features", and people believe it. Therefore,
when M$ releases a new OS (or, to be more acurate, the same OS in a
different box), people think that it is new, they see it as improved,
and they truly believe that they need the new featues that it promises
to have. However, most of their "New" OS's are the same thing. The only
differences between Win95 and Win98 are purly cosmetic. And, from what I
have heard about WinME, there is absolutly no difference it and Win98.
Win95 introduced some new technologies and features into their OS's, but
everything since has had nothing new.
Kenny
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