re: Windows XP. It's Just an O/S!
Thursday, September 20, 2001 at 11:56 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by TonyW
(174 messages posted)
Even the car industry in the UK does the MS upgrade thing and it isn't subtle. The
license plate gives away the place and year of registration and they change every
6 months....................
On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 9:03 pm, Bryan wrote:
>I have to chuckle about 'NO ONE WILL MAKE YOU UPGRADE'. This is true enough, insofar
>as no one will hold a gun to my head, demanding that I do so, but MS has never followed
>such tactics like someone dumping a big pail of water on your head... MS instead
>is like a shifty, agile, little punk who sprays you, ALL_THE_TIME, with a plant
mister,
>eventually soaking you. Just look at MSN Messenger... I haven't upgraded for months
>(since the most recent version was 'made available', but my 'dread of Fridays' is
>getting near the point where I will. To explain: has no one noticed, gotten annoyed
>at, written an email (as I have), etc. about the fact that Messenger's auto-upgrade
>has the three choices of 'Yes, I'll download it now', 'No, ask me again the next
>time I log on', and 'No, ask me again in one week'? There is no option for those
>of us, for whom our own version does what we NEED and WANT it to do AS IS, to say,
>'No, don't ask me again.' But that shifty little punk with his plant mister has
>almost entirely soaked me now, and I'm almost ready to give in. And we all know
>that MS follows such tactics in larger issues, compared to which messenging is piddling
>small potatoes. With all of the comparisons we've seen between the computer industry
>and Detroit/the Big Three over the years, it's time for a new one: Sure, Detroit
>invented 'planned obsolescence', subtly changing each year's new model to distinguish
>it from older versions but, UNLIKE the computer industry, the fact that a new Buick
>comes out does NOT mean that the one you've got in the garage won't work anymore.
> I LIKE my 'old Buick' Messenger, and I'm sure it would drive MS nuts if everyone
>ignored the upgrades, but even if I wasn't nearly soaked anyway, I know that they'll
>make some change a year or two down the road, 'for the better', that will render
>my nice, 700K dl messenger worthless, and I'll have to get the 8Mb version instead
>if I want to keep using it. Yes I know it comes integrated with XP, but on the
off
>chance I buy a new computer in the next few years, before XPire's replacement comes
>out. I'm repartitioning, reformatting, and installing Win98se again (PERHAPS WinMe).
> However, I tried WinMe, briefly, and hated it for two incredibly minor reasons:
>instead of radio buttons for 'shut down', 'restart', etc., they changed it to a
drop-down
>(WHY? radio buttons are more convenient! AND they were what was used before...
>why change stupid things like that, unless it's a deliberate spray with the mister?),
>and two: there is no longer a way to turn off all caps filenames (good lord... why
>remove that? was it causing some un-work-aroundable, unfixable, critical fault
in
>the new kernel or the gui engine? I think not.). Ummm. I guess this was kinda
>long. Oh, well... happy computing :)
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