Well-said Dark! My son had a brand-spanking-new computer from his online
school. It came with Windows 7, and was about as fast as a Commodore 64.
Okay, I'm exaggerating *slightly* but you get the point. By the way, I know
just how fast the computer itself was because of how smoothly it played
games--but go to delete a file or open a folder or any other W7 operation
and count the seconds as they drag on. There's no debate that 7 is better
than Vista, but XP is still the champ in my book. Even on my slow netbook,
which can't play the really complex games very smoothly, XP still does its
thing seemlessly.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users
I'm quite aware sapi 5.5, advanced net framework etc aren't available for
xp, but I've still! not been convinced that there really is any reason to
upgrade since practically speaking it seems all I get is a more irritating
interface and less compatibility with a good few games, and though these
components don't work, does anything good actually use them?
If microsoft want to sell me a new operating system, give me a reason why!
I should use one, something it does better than xp, and no, having flashy
ribbons and the like isn't, indeed to me that's a negative (I still think
microsoft should've had the option for an xp like interface).
If lots of developers use these new components to create better games and
such, well maybe that would be a reason to upgrade, but that's not
happened yet and I don't really see why i should say goodbye to 32 bit
compatibility, and! stagger around a more stupid interface until that
reason is there.
i don't doubt that will happen at some point in the future, but it
certainly hasn't yet, and especially not from microsoft.
I don't want to start this debate again, since I think everything has been
said that can be said, however I'm just pointing out there are perfectly
good reasons to stick with xp, and bigger numbers and newer versions of
components that most people only use to run other software aren't! a
reason to upgrade if they're not used for anything good, which up to now
they haven't been.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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