On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:50:46 -0000
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello David,
> If my information is correct I believe Microsoft have been doing a
> rather dirty trick.
[etc.]
What you describe is standard business practise. It's called lock-in.
It is a method used to try to force users into upgrading (at their own
cost, of course) to the company's latest version of their software.
As this starts to become an ever more costly and time-consuming
business, it /should/ ultimately fail, because people ought to get fed
up with shelling out hard earned cash and wasting ever more time
downloading and installing increasingly resource hungry(0) suites of
software. I say "should" because that would be and ideal where there's
no such thing as brand loyalty, everyone is fully informed about the
choices they have, and so forth.
The reality is that, like lambs to the slaughter, many people will
simply upgrade.
(0) More and more resource hungry and larger packages could also be
said of the FOS software we use, but as the only cost we're obliged to
make is one of time, rather than time *and* money, we're ahead of the
game, slightly.
--
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/ _)rad never immediately apparent"
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