Back to the good old days!

the boss wrote: well did i say self destruct timelines to be set soo tight.. may be 20 years is a fair time.. but anyway it was meant for humor only..i did be dumb to wish seriously for anything like that..

That's the one problem with the internet.  Its hard to tell the difference between serious and joking sometimes.

And while you may be joking, Microsoft is seriously toying with the idea.  Because of Vista's delay, Microsoft had to continue supporting versions it planned on discontinuing support for.  If Microsoft had their way, there would be an expiration date and every two years you would have to upgrade.  Big business balked at that idea, and rightly so.

If Microsoft could get away with it, we would all be paying them a never-ending subscription to use their software.


Edited by wistex - 13 April 2006 at 11:06pm

Thank God for OpenOffice.org!

I don't like supporting old versions of my software either, it's to time consuming, but then I offer free upgrades to get round this problem.

If MS don't want to support old versions then they should give you free upgrades!!

As far as openOffice.org goes I think their version 2 is really good, it is compatible with all MS Office Documents I have tried it in and you can choose to save in office format.

I also find OpenOffice much faster and easier to use than MS Office, with a much cleaner, simpler interface.

Since using OpenOffice.org I have now dumped MS Office completely as I much prefer it and is also saves me loads of $$$ over MS Office as I have 2 computers a laptop.

I think now that OpenOffice 2 is out, MS Office have got a battle on their hand as why should you pay $$$ for MS Office when in my opinion you can get all the Tools I need in OpenOffice for free in a product I think is better.


Edited by -boRg- - 15 April 2006 at 11:37am

I remember when the strategy was to write tight code that executed fast.