Hi Tom.
I completely agree that in 10, 20 years down the line etc things will
change, however that is not the current decision. When I considder do I
change from xp to a newer os, I way up the costs and bennifits. It is
entirely possible that windows 8 (with a touch screen), windows 9, mac os
etc will have sufficient bennifits in terms of new and interesting stuff to
do on it for me to want to upgrade, heck I've already bought an Iphone just
for that reason.
Equally however one thing I do notice betwene pc and console games is that
while mainstream console games are heavily supported on newer systems, ----
indeed I hear of ac ompletely retro console under developement, so that if
my snes ever gave up the ghost I wouldn't lose my games, the same is simply
not true for pc titles which is why legacy support is such an important
factor.
Fundamentally, if microsoft did! do their job properly and support all their
old libraries on newer versions of windows, just as windows right up to xp
had ful dos support meaning that you could run a peace of software written
in the late 70's right up to now, we would not be having this conversation
since even if there were! newer games that only ran on newer windows you
wouldn't be asking users to give up what games they had already in addition
to accepting microsoft's silly interface.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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