Basically, Microsoft has backwards compatibility down.
Yeah.
Right.
Much of the rest of your message either apologizes for Microsoft's ineptitude at providing adequate backwards-compatibility or blames the creators of 'incompatible' software.
Sort of like your implicit indictment of Apple, No?
To take a case in point: Try running the DOS version of ACCPAC/BPI under Windows 2000 or XP. Unless you like spending your working day reading text in a fun-house mirror you might want to max your computers out at Win 98SE.
But Microsoft made the migration path *very* clear, way back in the early 90s
Yeah.
"Cairo will save you."
We all know where that went.
So everyone programmed for Win 95 or, later, 98.
And lots of people got the rug pulled out from under them when 2000, and later XP, came out.
Not to mention the many DOS programs that became essentially unusable.
Doesn't look all that different from <OS-7/Rhapsody/OS-8/OS-9/OS-X> to me.
Whatever.
Call me when my DOS programs are again usable under a current MS OS.
I just played a couple of games from '84 on my Mac under Classic (no reboot necessary). Not bad for a system that doesn't have backward compatibility down.
-=-Dennis
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