At 06:40 2016-02-23, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote: > There are no technical reasons why I shouldn't > >have been allowed to continue to run Office 97 on Windows 7
Endless backward compatibility is unrealistic and there is a point where providing some aspect of it costs a company more than it's worth in user retention. Should Microsoft or anyone else really have to deal with all the heartache of enabling and supporting 16-bit software on a 64-bit OS at this point in time, especially when there are solutions like virtualisation and containers? Windows does a better job than almost anything bar certain big-iron mainframe operating systems in this respect. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1456507200.3579674.532913034.55d73...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
