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Originally Posted by Ric
What Microsoft should have done was release the code or whatever it is they do to allow the software companies to build the drivers for their software. That way there would have been a lot less confusion and complaints.
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The point is Ric - that they most certainly did. Even as a punter, I had a beta copy 18 months before release. It's just pure laziness or bad business that software and hardware vendors whose products RELY on the existence of Windows sit back and think that they can't or wouldn't be bothered to conform to new technology. Late alpha, beta and release candidate versions were offered to developers and software/hardware vendors for ages. If they didn't bother to take te offer up they deserve, quite frankly, to be bearing the brunt of disappointed users today - not Microsoft.
I remember someone here a while back arguing that it was unfair on these busineses for MS to keep marching ahead. What a lot of crock! It's THEIR business to keep up with progress if they want to play the game. That'd be like a backyard fibreglass company complaining that they're going out of business still supplying spoilers for VL Commodores.
Crikey - I've got to stop this. I'm starting to sound like a Microsoft evangelist - and that's coming from a Linux/Unix/Mac user. Sheesh!