There must be something I don't get: I started with DOS, worked with every iteration of Windows from 3.1 to 10 (except 8), and never had serious issues. I'm still running a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 from 1995, and it's working just as it always did. The upgrade from W7 to W10 took a little time but never faltered, and now it's generally stable. The only annoyance I have is, very occasionally, it will start an update while I'm working, and in doing so can stop some services, but it's easily overcome by a warm boot - which doesn't seem to cruel the update!
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2018 9:13 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PDML Annual book - request for next year On 2/28/2018 16:42, John Coyle wrote: > On most on-line forms, under Windows 10, and prior to that under at > least 7 if not XP, previously submitted information is available if you type > the first letter of the information as a dropdown. > More than that, I notice that on at least one line banking system, > when making payments, previously entered references are also available. > Perhaps that is an advantage of using Windows, despite the naysayers in this > group? > The advantage for me was Windows has always been mostly hardware agnostic. I could buy parts, plug 'em together; boot up the install disk and get a working, usable system ... up until Windoze 10. When I wanted to actually do some work, the applications I needed to use would function. Sometimes it was aggravating. It took trial and error to get it going, but eventually it *DID* get going. Often it was FUGLY, but it worked. That's why I'm so hostile towards Windoze 10. It didn't work. After all the nagging and aggravation they put me through, it wouldn't work. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
