Subj : Re: Exitilus 3.20
To   : Deuce
From : Daemon
Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 01:54 pm

  Re: Re: Exitilus 3.20
  By: Deuce to Daemon on Thu Aug 18 2005 03:44 am

 >  >   I've been wondering about that, if they're going to pull another Win3.1
 >  > Win95+ almost total incompatibility game again for the next few years to
 >  > recapture the market fresh.
 > 
 > Hrm?  I must have missed that incompatibility game... I'm *still* using 16-b
 > bit Windows programs under XP... and they were used on 95, 98, 2k, and XP wi
 > no issues.

  Oh, I don't necessarily mean everything will stop WORKING (hell, old DOS
stuff still work to this day, if a little buggy in some multi-tasking
environments), just that there was that fundamental shift in compatibilities in
software suites that essentially forced the world to replace everything in
their computer systems to keep up with Gates' idea of what an OS is.

  Sure, it's a trend that continues, rather inevitably, through subsequent
versions, but I remember thinking B.G. had really put the boot to the pants of
the computer world with that shift to '95 to seize the market.

  Microsoft's marketing reminds me a lot of those Relacore commercials.  High
pressure circular logic sales pitches.  "Stress increases cortisol!  Cortisol
increases belly fat!  Relacore decreases Cortisol!!  YOU NEED RELACORE!!!!!"  
Which is an attempt to kick-start the stress->fat cycle by stressing people
into thinking they're already inevitably fat.  Because they're stressed. 
Because they're fat.  Because they're stressed...

  Just strikes me as being an awful lot like Microsoft products are marketed,
particularly when there's a fundamental shift in operation involved.

  

  

       [daemon]                 
       In the shuffling madness...      



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