I've noticed a trend with Microsoft operating systems. Windows 3.1 was
terrible, the next version fixed a lot of the problems but had problems of
it's own, which were fixed in the next version that had bugs of it's own,
and so it continues even today. Remember Windows ME? Rushed onto the
market too quickly and really turned a lot of people off. Windows 7 was to
have been the cure, and Windows 8 was to have been the cure for 7, and now
8.1 is the band-aid for 8.0.
Apple, apparently, does it's homework before selling us the test papers, and
only minor corrections are needed to fix the mistakes. When OS7 came out
for iDevices, it actually wasn't all that long until the major flaws for
Voice-Over users were ironed out. It wasn't very long after 7.0 was
released that 7.4 was released, and it's working pretty well.
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From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question
Hi Tom.
to be honest I don't agree with you about microsoft simply because of the
money involved. on xp I can run programs for dos written in qbasic, C and
goodness knows what from 20 years ago. That is a huge corpus of material.
Up to xp microsoft had a care for all that legacy support which is why I
can download copies of even something like the dos version of hunt the
wumpus from 1978 and run it.
You could write a program in basic and it'd be fine on xp today, just as
was the original plan for Eamon deluxe.
With post xp windows however microsoft are following a model of upgrade
or else to both devs and users alike, and no, I don't accept the
arguement that microsoft couldn't include this support indeed the fact
that they've seen the light with respect to vb6 shows that they could and
were just being money grubbing with their phase out, (you yourself admit
the price for all the vb net stuff).
With games, well it's not just the case of running or not running so much
as capabilities. A developer like Jim kitchin who has worked in vb6 for
years, well what bennifits are there to him to running vb net other than
the extra harrassment caused by microsoft and the need to buy new vb net
tools. Also, would Jim Kitchin's games be any better for using vb net or
another programming language than using vb 6? ---- I don't kow, not being
a programmer but that is also a question which needs answering.
Ultimately it comes down as I said to bennifits. Whichever way you cut the
cookie upgrading is a hassle, and a hassle which microsoft have only made
worse with their buggered up interface and lack of compatibility, a fact
which I'm glad to see they are at least recognizing with their including
of vb6 support (I've heard lots of stories of things not working on
windows 8 so it's good that microsoft are finally seeing some sense at
least).
To your stand off question well to be honest as I said if microsoft had
done a better job with windows 7 we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Maybe windows 8, maybe windows 9, maybe a future version will be better.
I'm confident enough myself that something better than xp will! come along
in the future which will make myself and others change, ---- but until
then well if people keep using xp and developers keep writing for it, what
is so wrong with that?
it's like laser disks and dvds. Back in the mid 1990's, I knew someone who
had bought a new laser disk system. He claimed the video and sound were
better, and all the technical bits were there and asked why I and other
still used video.
We said we used video becuase there were still more good films on video to
watch than laserdisk, even though laserdisk was technically a better
format.
Of course 10 or so years later, and dvd replaced video, and myself and
everyone else got to change our videos for dvds because there are now much
better and cheaper films available on dvd than video, and most things that
were originally video have been ported to dvd, ---- and laserdisk has
fallen by the way side, however had we migrated to laserdisk just because
it was technically better we'd have not been any better off now.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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