Aye, but there's the rub. How are they going to sell you a new computer in 3-5 years if your current one meets all your needs and is not physically broken? I think that planned obsolescence is a big part of the PC marketplace. The software side of this is even worse. MS has been fighting their own success for a long time. Around the time of Windows 98, Office became a mature and stable product. It did what most people wanted an office suite to do. They then started digging for features. You start to get in trouble when you add the paper clip and sell it as one version, then take the paper clip out and try to sell it again as a different version. Sure, Win2k might meet your needs but, alas, we won't support it anymore because it is as old as the hills. Move on, luddite.
/dons aluminum foil bowler derby.
The thing is that Win98 also met everyones needs at the time too.. SAme as 95 before that and even the move from DOS to Win3 was also met with a level of distrust IIRC.
No, Im all for change, but in typical American fashion, We are kind of forced to move when in truth there is no real benefit at all in doing so. If there is a real reason to change, then I will be there, but while there is no reason other than being told we need to, then thats just being a sheep.
Oh, and might I add, that Windows XP and Windows 2000 are, for most things the exact same thing. The differences are so small, that if something works in XP, it is probably going to work in 2000, and with the exception of a small number of games, everythign is the same.
So, while there is support for XP, there will still be support for 2K, whether it is supported by MS or not, makes no difference because XP drivers also work in 2K unless they have been specifically written to NOT work on 2K.
Unless of course you are talking about my suspicious love for my old Atari machines, then in this case I can only say 2 things ( Undeservedly long thigns but thats me )
1 - I have built up a software base that is quite simply shocking. Most of the software is PD/Shareware of course, but all shareware that I use, has been bought and paid for as is the way, and there is a lot of it. My PCs can do nothing that my Ataris cannot other than play 3D Games
2 - Music writing.
I pride myself on writing my own music, its from scratch and I use the Atari to record my music, arrange it and whatever, but I dont cheat. I dont use any kind of special effects, I dont use any stupid and silly tools that seem to come with PC software, I dont need them because I have the skills to not need them. I am happy to use CuBase Audio on my Falcon and Score on my TT and they do the job asked of them. I tried to move to the PC, but putting it simply, when I tried to play my music back, I found that the timing was going all to ****, it was slow then sped up then slowed down again.. Absolutely awful. I am used to perfect timing and the PC just did not give that.
So, I went back to my trusty Ataris.
To called me a luddite is all very well, but sometimes, progress is not progress at all.
Oh, and by the way, My Atari Falcon also runs multiple OSes too!
I have TOS, GEM, MiNT ( Thing ), Magic ( Jinnee ), NeoDesk ( Geneva ) and also Oases and Debian Linux
