With MicroSoft trying to thrust Windows 10 on us, we’re being told a lot of tripe about the Windows operating system, especially by “I.T. professionals”, who sit on the sidelines, sneering at “Luddites” who have been using PCs successfully for 25 years or more whilst maintaining continuity of their work, often despite the ministrations of the I.T. guardian angels.
From a user’s point of view, Windows wasn’t worth having until version 3.1 came out, and even then, DOS word-processing and graphics programs were far superior to any Windows version. In fact, the DOS version of WordPerfect 6.2 runs quite happily on a 20-year-old P90 and it will do pretty well anything the current Windows version can manage apart from the obvious improvements like creating PDF files.
Windows 95 was a radical shift in the design and all versions up to 7 were just tinkering with that layout. Then the system went horribly wrong. Windows 8 tried to make the organized environment of a working PC look like a cheap copy of a mobile phone screen. So is it any wonder that the remaining faith in Windows went . . . out the window?
Thus people assume that Windows 10 is just more MicroSoft bloatware, full of gadgets that 99.999% of the users will never use or need and just a revision to get Windows back looking like a continuation of W95. Users will be left wondering if their trusty old software, for which they paid good money, will actually run on the new version, or their still-working gadgets will stop working for lack of a driver program.
It’s all a matter of trust and continuity, and these are commodities in rather short supply when it comes to “upgrades” to Windows.
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