I know 7.x and higher have a different user interface (though 7.x isn't that different at all), but I constantly talked about updating to at least 6.2.0208 because of the fixes, in contrast to you wanting to stay with 0205.
You rant about the issue that people are forced to update just because of features so new features which they wont use are pushed unwillingly in their throat. The fact is that most updates are in the first place done because of bugfixes; not because of new features.
If forced updates are done it means it is because of bugfixes, not because MS wants you to use the new features. If an update is almost only about features then the upate will NEVER be forced! An extremely good example of this is exactly MSN Messenger. Updates will NEVER be forced if they almost only contain new features; you would still be able to use older versions. And if an update is about new features they change the major or minor version number. If an update is done mainly because of bugfixes only the build number is changed.
But it is very convenient to forget and/or ignore all that and not make that distinction when ranting about how MS and updating is bad.
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Originally posted by Hitokiri
edit: Anyway, in light of a couple of the previous replies maybe this article might be of interest to people. When I first read it, I wanted to dump Windows for Linux right away, and I'm still planning to as soon as I find the time. Of course, who's to say it's all true..but that's with everything and I have little doubt about this one.
I'm sorry but if you base your judgement on such an article where the biased opinion leaks of it like oil from an old car, you will encounter a lot of problems in your computer usage (being it based upon MS, Linux or whatever).
I'm not saying MS is everything and always does the right thing and all, but that article clearly is written to put MS in a bad daylight and put together by someone who simply hate MS. It was not written to tell people the truth about MS at all or to give people decent information as that article is even so biased and full of wrong or twisted stuff and stuff convenient left out that it gets rediculus.
If you have little doubt that such an article is a piece of representative information, i surely can understand why you don't want to update programs. But it is exactly people not wanting to update stuff which feeds such stupid and biased opinions and articles.
Base you judgement on knowledge, not on some stuff you read on random pages (and knowledge isn't gathered by reading/believing everything you read on the net).
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