Originally posted by Adeli
You know what really annoys me about those big corporate types? Planned obsoleteness. That means they plan problems in the products they release, so we will need to buy the \"successor\" which could just as easily (until XP) have been a bug fix patch. XP was a breakthrough in Windows. I hear Server 2003 was too.
The proof of this planned obsoleteness is that they have already started planning the successor to a product that isn\'t even available yet. This disgusts me. If they weren\'t so greedy, they might just release a working product that will continue to do just that.
Full ACK.
They are even sneaking this into the x86 world by continuously inventing new case specifications that will force you to buy a new case every seven years. Without any good reason, I may add, as the ATX specification IMO only served to bring serious wasting of energy to every PC. Did you know that your PC isn\'t switched off when you hit the power switch? No, a part of it keeps wasting power, for the IMO useless function of powering up at mouse move... I don\'t know of anyone who actually uses this feature or would have wanted it given a choice. It\'s a gift to the power companies.
Furthermore, it lets any surge on the mains into your computer, opening it for damage even if it\'s supposedly off.
I like the x86 for being modular and thus flexible, but this is increasingly not the case anymore, seeing that everything is now integrated on the mainboard, save the graphics card and the harddisk. This plainly sucks if you ask me. If I don\'t want a soundcard or an USB or some other crap in my
server, then I most certainly don\'t want to pay for it!
Also, why do we need new case specs if they don\'t make things any smaller or better? Let me answer that: because the case was the only thing that you didn\'t have to replace! But if people don\'t throw away perfectly good things, then how are we going to extract more money fomr them? Thus, new case specs. :tdown:
And obviously this has been going on with Windows and Office as well. They simply stop supporting the older versions, thereby forcing you to keep upgrading, even if the current version was perfectly adequate. And this denial of support is pre-planned as well.
