Val said:
I can't imagine why. A newbie wouldn't think to look for it.
That's all part of the plan to wean us off the old ways of doing thing.
Many old features are still in Vista (and Office 2007), but hidden. You
gotta really, really want them in order to find them and make them
available.
The same way MS and the PC makers are trying to wean us off the parallel
port, serial port, and floppy disk. WinXP and Vista have crappy support
for
the older interfaces, making them such a pain to use, you'll want to stop
using them. Then they can stop making them.
Next round of software from MS will probably do away with menus
altogether.
My spouse has been considering an Apple Computer when the other old XP
machine bites the dust. I miss the floppy drive a lot on this PC. It was
something we all used here to move small files from on PC to another or send
small exe's to each other by snail mail that ISP anti-virus programs
snagged. Also, some of my software wont work on these Vista machines. We
have to keep the other old XP machine just to use the Epson scanner. It
works perfectly but there are no patches for this one made by Epson. It's
the 1200u scanner. The old printer will work but not the picture printing
feature. This really pisses us off. It's either keep the old XP to use the
scanner and picture printing software, or spend another few hundred bucks
for a new printer and scanner.
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