csdibiase wrote:I'm sorry for all the people that refuse to upgrade, but at some point software development companies HAVE to drop support for old OS's. Is there aFirefox version for MSDOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1? No, of course you don't. At some point the code base MUST drop support for the older platforms or else it becomes too much of a maintenance / test / support nightmare.
I'm sure that official support is not being dumped because of some elitist "Win9x sucks" attitude. In the long run it's good for the project.
I have been following this thread since it began.
It's not a matter of refusing to upgrade it's a choice I should make if I so choose. What is wrong with 98 if I want to use it.
The question I keep asking myself is why we let Microsoft or anyone else dictate what we use or not use in our computing life.
I would venture to say there is not one out of 1000 on these forums who hasn't had some bad things to say about Microsoft at one time another. But yet we allow them to dictate when we buy something new. May it be an OS or a new piece of hardware to support the new OS.
I would agree with most of the pros for upgrading if I were Microsoft, HP,Dell, Intel who ever. They tell us the old is no good and the new is bigger, better and more useful and we just fall over our selves to make them more money. When they think they have gotten all they can out of us they come up with something to force to buy the new and improved.
Has anyone stopped to think what the new Vista will do for MS, HP, Dell, Intell and countless others who were just waiting in the wings for MS to give them something in order for them to sell new computers, printers new processors and an other such supportive elements.
I would estimate Vista will be no less than $150.00 to $175.00 for the low end system. Now lets buy all the other hardware we will need in order to make Vista as useful as 98 is now. No less than $1000.00. Total cost $1150.00 to $1175.00 just because they want more.
Why do you think they want make anything backward compatable. It sure not because they love us so much they just want us to be happy. The underling reason, they can't make any money if they don't take advantage of our gullability
Just my thoughts.
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