Both Vista and Windows 7 have hardware requirements in excess of those
of Windows 98.
No shit.
Windows 98 can play DVDs.
Can Windows 98 play HD form factor DVDs? Are there drivers for my SAS
controller? NO! Are there drivers for my simple HD DVD/BluRay drive?
I didn't even check. Why? because I have a brain. What about the new
USB specs?
What important feature does Vista have, or
did XP have, that Windows 98 was lacking?
An order of magnitude more secure, and a more robust kernel, which
means that a person's productivity goes up. For engineering, those hours
are expensive, so productivity numbers matter.
This is just a plot to grab
more money off of people
You are just an idiot that doesn't *really* know what computers and
computing is about, despite any technical knowledge you may have gained
in recent years. (that is the same as the remark you just made).
Your grasp of the overall paradigm... the bigger picture... is
tragically flawed by a gang boy retard mentality where you believe the
bullshit you hear at every gossip session you participate in. Folks would
rather hear the truth, not your bent brained opinion.
- by making the new computers that come out
have a new operating system, new software gets targeted for the new
platform, and so people are eventually forced to upgrade for
interoperability reasons, even when their old computers are capable of
doing the work desired.
Some idiot said that same thing about DOS as windows hit the fore. He
too was wrong, and imagine trying to get an accounting staff at a large
company to enter data into Lotus 123 on a DOS based computing machine.
Progress marches forward. You either keep up or fall behind. Sure,
there is an expense, but you either belly up to the bar and play with the
big boys, or you piss and moan all the time, and never really quite learn
what it is all about.
I am quite glad that my 4 year old system works with either new OS. I
piece together a new system every 4 years or so. This last one has SLI
and SATA, etc. That means that Ican keep a fast video card with GPU
processing capacity. Do you even know what SLI is?
I have about seven computers in storage, including my first 286. It
will not run anything modern either.
You either keep up, and go with the flow or you fall behind. Computers
are cheap. They used to be $5000 back when that was a LOT of money. Now,
they are pennies by comparison.
I am sorry that your McDonald's job does not allow you to save enough
to get a new computer every now and then. Or maybe you work in IT. If
that is the case, then it is pretty sad that companies are employing
idiots that learned about computers and programming and the like, but
lost all grasp of a modern, consumer based society, and what progress is
all about.