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Posted by Khmer Ancestor Thursday, July 23, 2009

A little more research would have made this article match the facts.

Win 95 was the first 32bit Windows operating system. People were not lined up to buy something they didn’t know about. In those days most Windows users knew a great deal about how their operating system worked, or didn’t.

Vista, once the toy interface is turned off, is similar to XP. The support for Vista was not erratic, it was costly, both to manufactures and end users. As it will be costly to those moving from XP to Win7 since many apps won’t run properly and many manufactures will continue to abandon users’ older equipment such as printers and other outboard devices.

The idea that Microsoft knows what users want is amusing. Many beta testers make a hobby out of beta testing rather than continually using an operating system to get work done. So to a great extent Win7 is going to be another Vista in that users won’t know what will work and what won’t until they start using Win7.

It should also be pointed out that this situation is not unique to Microsoft/Windows. Apple also tends to abandon users of previous versions of OSX. For instance the original Mac Mini cannot run the current version of Safari. So long time Mac users are also familiar with the ’sorry it doesn’t work anymore’ scenario.

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