Subj : Re: Proposal to Keep WinXP Support "Alive"
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Subject: Re: Proposal to Keep WinXP Support "Alive"
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:54:30 -0600, Richard <cavelamb@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>On 12/20/2012 4:21 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:11:31 -0800 (PST), Greegor
>> <greegor47@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Why are so many people posting ways
>>> to turn off cutesy parts of Win 8 and
>>> band-aid the shortcomings to make it functional?
>>
>> Someone asked, someone answered. That's how newsgroups are supposed to
>> work.
>>
>>> It's like a whole lot of making excuses!
>>
>> No, it's just a few people who are afraid of change, asking how to
>> make a new OS look more like an old OS.
>>
>
>
>And - what it's going to cost to replace all the current software
>with new stuff that does less.  At least that has been my experience
>with OS upgrades.

If your experience with OS upgrades is anything like mine, it won't
cost anything. There are plenty of things I don't particularly care
for with any OS, Windows or not, but backwards compatibility isn't an
area where I can throw stones. MS has consistently done an amazing job
in that respect.
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