This is a rather large article -- so large I almost forgot which list I got the link from and was about to send it back here when I reached this quote:

     "The same applies to any number of other software packages: After they'vereached a certain level of maturity, you just run out of things to add.  Thisis a severe problem for large software (and hardware) vendors, whose revenuestreams are dependent on users upgrading to the latest version every fewyears.  If users have a perfectly usable old PC running a perfectly usable old
version of Windows [the OS] and a perfectly usable old version of Office [application "X"], there's noincentive to upgrade, and so by extension no incentive to provide a newrevenue stream to the vendor."

damn, that sure sounds familiar...

----- Original Message ----
From: James B. Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 6:24:05 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Vista

If you are interested in discovering what M$ has done to Vista that may be
causing some of the mysterious functionality and performance problems then I
suggest that you read this:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html#indirect



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