Re: For the Windoze haters - VS2005

In article <dsbigv$72t$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

"Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesSpam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[...]

I do somewhat agree with your sentiment, though, that Microsoft and "the
computer industry" in general seem to try to force continued changes in
programming languages, development systems, etc., even when it doesn't
seem as
though such changes objectively are any better, but are really just
different.
(Microsoft Office being a good example here -- I'd estimate that for 90+%
of
users, Office 97 works as well as Office 2005.) I honestly believe that
they
do this to fuel the "IT economy," and thereby indirectly elevate their own
returns.

Last month after fitting a new motherboard and a nightmare waste of my life.
I discovered I could no longer use win98. Was forced to load something
called windowsXP.
Other than a moronic cartoon dog attached to the 'search' feature (now
disabled) and (I've read) loss of direct hardware control, I can spot no
difference at all between the 2 programs.

Well, one of the differences is that you can no longer directly
control hardware. ;-) IMO, this is a good thing.

The other major difference is that XP (sorta) works. I prefer
Win2K, though XP has some nice features (better multi-display
support and it's *much* better at switching between docked and
mobile operation).

--
Keith
.

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