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@LayBB:
You said: "I don't like W-10 but please understand I don't hate W-10."
How can one hate an OS? I don't feel that strongly about anything technology-related but I don't like the very obvious direction Microsoft is taking as of Windows 10 which I see as not very user-friendly, and more dictatorial*, than the Microsoft I liked and respected for such things as how their products used to support compatibility, to some extent both fw and bw.
Case in point: to this day I use a few antiquated, 16-bit programs that I began to use and came to like in the mid-to-late 1990's such as Jasc Software's Paint Shop Pro v 7, and a real oldie: Designer, a primitive CAD program that has features that are still unusual today; in it you can move the mouse pointer using the arrow keys and so get exact positioning av drawing elements that is very difficult and haphazard with the mouse - you use the mouse to click-and-drag stuff swiftly and long distances in full-drawing-view, then zoom in and do the delicate positioning using a click-and-drag+arrow key combination, if anybody understands what I'm trying to say.
Paint Shop Pro probably can't do anything that you can't do better with, say, Paint Shop. But then it doesn't take years to master, is as familiar and 'homey' to me as my old overstuffed chair, was inexpensive and is very light on system resources and starts up in the blink of an eye.
The same goes for Designer. Yes, with it one is back to the old 8.3 file naming limitations, but that certainly excercises the imagimation, if nothing else. Plus, I have used computers professionally since 1987, running DOS and later various shells for DOS, then Windows 2.0 and I don't mind so much. 'Its-a not so bad'. There is still a remnant of awe in me that these thing are possible to do at all. I was 23 in 1980, affordable personal computers were just becoming a reality.
Anyway, I like to be allowed to be a fuddy-duddy this way and run this fossil-ware from the past millenium, but as far as I understand, MS has abandoned the idea of compatibility as of v 10. Sure, they make more money by gradually making software and hardware obsolete but the user-friendliness is gone.
EDIT: I just came across this dire message while looking for an online radio station app: "To use this app on your PC, upgrade to Windows 10" and have had the same thing happen when I saw a game a friend was playing on his Windows 10 machine and coudn't get it 'cause "To use this app on your PC, upgrade to Windows 10".
Well, f*** you very much. Yes, the new and improved Microsoft: 'force people into the fold or else'. 'The people will use Windows 10 or we want nothing to do with them'.
That feeling is mutual - I for one elect opt out here, and will stick 'til kingdom come with Windows 7 out of sheer stubbornness and dislike of the use of force or else finally grow up and use some flavor of Unix.
MS used to make fun of Apple and Jobs' dictatorial ways. That was then, this is very obviously a new Microsoft, a seismic shift in attitude.
Last edited by Admiral Awesome; 27 Dec 2015 at 03:28. Reason: Nothing better to do.