On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 01:30 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > The point I meant to make was that you keep all the software you > bought for DOS or earlier versions of Windows?
You said: "they [Microsoft] don't care if nothing works anymore". That was too hyperbolic for my taste, and my purpose was to argue that Microsoft DOES spend a great deal of effort to accommodate older interfaces. I will concede that they don't do a perfect job. But I think you are wrong to suggest that they don't care. > And they [old MS-Windows applications] work? Or maybe you don't care > that they don't work and you upgrade? It really doesn't matter to me all that much. I avoid Microsoft products. Perhaps you should too. > You can defend Microsoft all you wish, but they'll never come as close > to protecting their customers' software development investments as IBM > has done. Hands down. I agree. IBM does an exemplary job at that. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
