From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 09:20:13 -0700, pyotr filipivich   
    wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes  on Thu, 06 Apr 2017 09:10:15 +0200   
   >typed in alt.comp.os.windows-xp  the following:   
   >>   
   >>It's probably not love but inertia.   
   >>   
   >>If you have a working computer running Windows XP that does everything   
   >>you want to do, why change?   
   >   
   >	Or WinXp runs the machine in a way you find satisfactory.   
   >>   
   >>If, however, your computer dies, and you buy a new one, chances are it   
   >>will have a later version of Windows already installed, aqnd intertia   
   >>means that most people will go along with that.   
   >>   
   >>OK, I bought my current computer because the old one died, but I   
   >>bought it without an OS installed, and simply restored the backups of   
   >>my old one which had Windows XP installed on it.   
   >>   
   >>But it wasn't for love of Windows XP that I did it, but inertia. It   
   >>saved me the schlep of having to reinstal; all the software and   
   >>getting it working the way I wanted to.   
   >   
   >	Bingo.  Not so much that I don't care about the new and Improved   
   >Operating System, as I find the "New and Improved" interface a pain to   
   >work with.  It gets in my way.   
      
   If a new version (say Windows 10) could install itself over my   
   existing system, without my having to reinstall every app on it, which   
   means having to spend time hunting for the original installation   
   discs, reentering keys and all that stuff, I'd have little or no   
   objection to it.   
      
   It's intertia, not love.   
      
   I got a computer so it could do stuff for me.   
      
   "Upgrading" to a new version of Windows means I would have to spend a   
   lot of time doing stuff for my computer just so that Microsoft can get   
   more money from me.   
      
      
      
      
      
   >   
   >>Of course software vendors don't like inertia. They want everryone to   
   >>buy everything they've got to sell as soon as it becomes available.   
   >>But that's not a problem with the operating system, that's a problem   
   >>with capitalism , which causes a disjuncture between different   
   >>people's objectives.   
   >   
   >	That's a problem of Commercialism - must have the latest and   
   >newest, regardless of what it is.   
   >   
   >tschus   
   >pyotr   
      
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