Upgraded to Win 10
Well I bit the bullet and upgraded my Win 7 desktop to Win 10 I did our laptop win 8 and all went well so next was to see if I wanted to do the desktop. I have a couple of old programs and was worrie...
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Fizz wrote:I respectfully have to disagree, upgrading is a racket to get your money. Many programs that a lot of people use are simple one-trick ponies and really don't need all the bells and whistles that are touted as the reason to upgrade. Many people don't need all the neato-keen things MS Office will do, they just need a relatively simple spread sheet program and a good word processor. Why should you have to keep learning a new e-mail program? Change the underpinnings and keep the interface. But if you don't change things around, how do you convince people that it's "new-and-improved"?Sam Spade wrote:bwanshoom wrote:
I was asking an honest question, not condemning him. Sheesh.
And I was saying that the answer should be obvious.
It's like an old shoe; it serves the purpose and is comfortable.
Marketing is trying to convince us that changing just for the sake of change is good. It is a LIE.
If you like wearing your old shoes, do so.
Don't come here telling everybody upgrading is a racket to get your money.
If you prefer to be left behind do so quietly.
SHEESH!!
If they kept the desktop the same, and didn't move things around, a lot of people couldn't tell the difference between Windows XP and Windows 10. They want that computer to behave like a toaster: put in the bread and take out toast. People buy Apple products because 1) they want to be part of what they consider to be cool, 2) they want the thing to work without having to think why it works.
