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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mani1 who wrote (108968)	5/1/2000 11:20:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1578370

RE:"The one you list is for "Windows 95 OSR2 Only", I had the first release. From what I gathered my only option was to upgrade my OS if I wanted to use USB. My biggest gripe with Microsoft is I had to purchase Office 97 since it was not backward compatible with the previous version. I did not pay for the Win 98 version, I already had one." I can understand your gripe. OTOH, one of the biggest problems moving an OS forward is trying to maintain backward compatibility, legacy if you will. You apparently end up with a overload of code which invites conflicts and poor performance. Yet MS tried to keep the legacy. I guess they didn't go back far enough with USB support or Office. Maybe they planned it that way.