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I've been using MS Windows since it's initial release years ago. Hard as it
may be to believe, there was a time when anything that ran on an earlier
version of Windows was guaranteed to run on the latest version. It's gotten
progressively worse over the years and now we have Vista, where anything
that ran on an earlier version is virtually guaranteed to go haywire.

If there's been some sort of improvement here, I fail to see it.

Buddha
 
and now we have Vista, where anything that ran on an earlier version is
virtually guaranteed to go haywire.
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Define "anything".
Most things that run on XP will run in Vista.
 
Very untrue, or apparently you never ran into the "dll hell" created by
installing older software in Win9x systems. Every single version of Windows
has had some backwards compatibility, but it's better now than it was.
Previous to XP there was no compatibility mode, a feature that allows for
the necessary runtime environment required by some software.

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Buddha said:
I've been using MS Windows since it's initial release years ago. Hard as
it may be to believe, there was a time when anything that ran on an
earlier version of Windows was guaranteed to run on the latest version.
It's gotten progressively worse over the years and now we have Vista,
where anything that ran on an earlier version is virtually guaranteed to
go haywire.

If there's been some sort of improvement here, I fail to see it.

Buddha
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I wish that you could have told my old computers that. The transition from
the Win 9x family to NT saw more than a few programs and hardware items not
working..

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Very untrue, or apparently you never ran into the "dll hell" created by
installing older software in Win9x systems. Every single version of
Windows has had some backwards compatibility, but it's better now than it
was. Previous to XP there was no compatibility mode, a feature that allows
for the necessary runtime environment required by some software.
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Yes, those were the days. As a part-time network admin for a small company,
I think I had 3-5 DLL files on each of about 6 or 7 floppy disks, with
folder structure to show others where they went, labeled with the program
that required them. It was always a lot of fun setting up a new PC. LOL
 
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