Re: The Eventual Famine
This is exactly why I'm not updating my windows until I have a good reason to. If I'm going to be running xp in a virtual machine anyway in order to get most of my games to run, well I need a dam good reason for all the hassle and microsoft just haven't given me one yet I've not really seen any practical bennifit to all these newer windows indeed from a purely functional perspective I'd be losing outlook express and getting a much more annoying interface with no advantages to any other things I do like web browsing, playing dvds or audio or word processing.
Frankly microsofts backwards compatibility is crappy and they should be shot. When you considder I can run dos programs on xp that were written in the late 70's, and no, I don't accept all the excuses about hardware sinse with the sort of money and time microsoft have they should be able to develop a better system, it's shear laziness and going for flashy interface s over function and forcing people to upgrade by breaking compatibility.
Of course that doesn't help for the future, and I do hope some sort of component emulator is created, either that or we all move to mac with virtual xp to run legacy games which is likely what will happen if microsoft continue not to give people any good reasons to move to future versions of windows, and by good reasons I mean practical bennifits such as things that can't be done in xp not just scares about the security bogyman or bigger numbers of this that and the other.
This is why I personally believe we'll not see many members of the Vi community moving to newer os until the actual interface changes, for example I can imagine some major bennifits to a desk top touch screen for accessible games, however failing microsoft fixing their compatibility or developing xp for modern hardware I don't think we're going to see a change in the near future whatever microsoft says.
Certainly if my desktop broke tomorrow I'd likely buy another xp machine, or at most a mac with virtual xp, rather than windows 7 or 8.
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