On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:11:42 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I'm not implying that W7 is just bugfixes, but they are going to make
>> money getting people to upgrade.
> 
> Well, sure.  I think I've lost track of why we're discussing it. :-)

Same here. :-)

>> Except, of course, that the nature of the beast is such that if you
>> want to run the newest software (games in particular) or have
>> particular bugs fixed, an upgrade is ultimately going to be required.
> 
> Yup. But if you're happy with the system as is, you don't need to
> upgrade. You're only on an upgrade treadmill if you want a different
> product.

For which Microsoft will be happy to provide you with many, many reasons 
- ultimately pushing the existing product out of support.  (To MS' 
credit, they don't do this very quickly and it seems to be set early in 
the cycle).

Want DX10 on XP?  They laugh at you (from what I recall, though some 
enterprising individual figured out a workaround IIRC).

Jim

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