Would this happen if Bill Gates was still the active CEO ?
Somehow I doubt it. That his wife has remade him into
Mother Theresa, Mark II, is ridiculous. Doesn't MS
know what it is doing any more ?
Bill Gates has been "pussywhipped" out of all recognition.
Billy
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PCMAG.com
The Great Upgrade Upheaval
For those with older computers, upgrading to Windows 8 will be more
trouble than it's worth.
* (http://www.pcmag.com/author-bio/john-c.-dvorak) By _John C.
Dvorak_ (http://www.pcmag.com/author-bio/john-c.-dvorak)
* October 4, 2012
The final rollout of _Windows 8_ (http://www.pcmag.com/windows-8/) is now
beginning and it will be loaded on all the new machines. I can assure you,
though, that just as with the transition from XP to Vista, nobody will want
to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8. What's the point? Windows 7 works
fine and Windows 8 is odd.
I already know _trying to upgrade_
(http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407095,00.asp) from XP/Vista/7 to
Windows 8 will be a headache. Nothing
will work correctly. You'll have to track down updates and with old software
from forgotten vendors, you may never get to upgrade your applications.
Also, upgrading to newer operating systems too often requires so many
reinstalls of your favorite packages that it is not worth the aggravation.
(http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,2383507,00.asp) The upgrade
barrier, which mostly stems form the Windows registry architecture, must have
cost Microsoft billions of dollars. I still have two XP machines around the
house and I am totally reluctant to upgrade to anything new.
There are at least a dozen programs that I would need to reinstall but I
have no idea where the original disks or serial numbers are. Even if I was
that organized, things just get moved around. Some downloadable software is
on the machine but the serial number is somewhere else.
None of this would be so problematic if Microsoft abandoned the registry
and put individual programs into easy-to-move folders.
Besides the issue with the registry, there is the problem with the AppData
folder. This contains odd data that the program needs to operate. It's in a
folder with other programs that need to have what amounts to "cookies" in
a bunch of folders in the AppData folder. You never know what is in there.
Meanwhile, the programs themselves are in the Programs folder. Why couldn't
the AppData be in there with the programs? You know, instead of being
scattered all around the machine?
In the early days, one of the best things about the Microsoft DOS when
compared with the Macintosh was that there was simply a logic to everything.
You didn't have components of every program scattered all over the place with
no rhyme, reason, or consistency. That slowly deteriorated when Windows
took over.
Some of this is due to greed. Microsoft knows that you'll probably buy a
newer version of Office if you cannot simply move the product to a new
machine by copying one folder with everything.
In fact, the company loses the opportunity to sell more copies of the
newest OS since everyone quickly learns that upgrading wrecks your workflow.
So,
nobody ever wants to upgrade and Windows 8 will be no exception. Just you
watch.
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