Hi ?Charles, Well, let me answer your question with a question. How do you expect them to make money if they don't continually release upgrades?
It sounds to me like your question is along the lines of "if it ain't broke don't fix it." While it might seem like you are paying money to do the same old things with OS that takes more memory, more CPU power, etc but I don't think you are paying attention to features or upgrades that have been added to the operating system. Let's use Windows Explorer as a simple example here. Back in Windows 98 you could not burn cds or dvds through Windows Explorer. Beginning with Windows XP you could burn data cds and music cds directly from Windows Explorer. In Windows 7 you can burn data cds, music cds, data dvds, and make video dvds by burning avi and mpg files to dvd all through Windows Explorer. My point being that we can clearly see new features like this being added to each successive version of Windows Explorer. Its really not a case of the same thing different version as a lot of other Windows programs have undergone a similar evolution. Weather you use those new features or not is really beside the point. The way I read your message is Microsoft doesn't do anything new or different from one version of Windows to the next accept make the OS more bloated, more of a memory hog, and there is nothing to ever recommend upgrading. I suppose some of what you say has some truth to it, but as I said above I think its simply a case of not taking advantage of the features and updates that are there. For instance,in Windows 7 there are a number of gadgets, little applets, you can dock to your desktop to monitor stocks and other real time information. Well, obviously if you don't follow the stock market and don't use the stock ticker gadget that would seem like a pretty useless upgrade to you personally. However, I'm sure there are plenty of people who buy and trade stocks online who happen to use that little stock ticker gadget, and for them upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 would have features they find useful in trading stocks. My point being not everything Microsoft adds to the latest Windows release will be important to you personally and it may even seem like the same thing different version, but for someone like me its really and truly not the same thing. There are a number of reasons a person might choose to upgrade weather it is bug fixes, security fixes, a new look and feel, more gadgets, additional features, whatever. It all depends on how much or how little you get out of your computer to begin with. Cheers! On 12/11/11, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > Do they really have to continually upgrade the operating system and > programs, making more power hogs, making us buy more powerful computers to > do the same tasks we were previously doing but having to use more powerful > processors and use more of the resources to do those tasks? Why can't they > just leave well enough alone once they get a system that actually does what > it's supposed to do? > > --- > "Security is not the absence of danger. It is the presence of the Lord." --- 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://mail.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.