Hi Josh, Just a note about the spell checker. It is true that in older versions of Outlook Express it did not come with a spell checker. However, Windows Live Mail, the e-mail client that replaces Outlook Express on Windows 7 and Windows 8, does come with a spell checker. So that does help your point about upgrading having both tangible and intangible benefits.
Cheers! On 12/18/13, Draconis <i...@dracoent.com> wrote: > Hi Tom, Dark, and others, > > I am not sure that anyone is misrepresenting your position, Dark. You want > tangible benefits to a very small set of criteria, but life is made up of a > combination of both tangibles and intangibles. For instance, perhaps you > don’t spell check because you are using XP. A benefit to using a Mac is that > the spell checker is built in and system wide, meaning that you can take > advantage of it anywhere with no additional cost. I’m not sure if later > versions of Windows have this, but I know for along time Microsoft wanted > that to be a premium feature available only in Office. However, that benefit > would not impact you directly, only those of us reading your messages. It > would be, to you at least, an intangible benefit that would impact how you > are perceived by others. However, it does not fall into your very narrow > parameters, and so therefore you discount it. > > In the case of those clinging to XP such as yourself, whether out of > stubbornness or necessity, the biggest concern I have is security. Perhaps > it will take a major catastrophe, such as a loss of data, identity theft, > loss of funds in one’s bank account, to wake some of you up. It won’t happen > to everyone, but the more blasé you are about the security benefits of > upgrading, the more likely you are to be one of those victims. But again, > this is an intangible that you will not care about until you are one of > them. > > It is one thing to decide that now is not the time for you to upgrade. > That’s your decision. I think Tom and I are only pointing out good reasons > you may wish to that you have dismissed based on misinformation or flawed > logic. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
