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Originally Posted by toddos
You should at least try the start menu search functionality from Vista/7. That's probably the biggest change over XP, and it's so much nicer. For example, let's say you want to uninstall a program. In XP, you can navigate through the control panel to find the "Add/Remove Programs" applet, or you can remember that the shortcut is called "appwiz.cpl" and type that from the Run prompt. In Windows 7, you can open the start menu and start typing "Uninstall" After the first letter, you'll see "Uninstall a program" in the results. After the second letter, it will bubble up to the top of the control panel items. And it works with everything. You don't need to pin stuff to the start menu anymore, or navigate 3 or 4 levels deep in the programs menu. You just start typing what you want ("Word", "Excel", "Visual Studio", whatever) and suddenly it's right there, ready for you to open it.
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Is that enough to "feed the upgrade machine"?
Software should be immortal, the only reason to get rid of it is because it won't do something that you need, or there is no longer hardware that can run it. Personally, I liked WIN 2000 SP4, but you can't install it easily on non-ide CD-ROM machines. For all it's limitations, it didn't have to "call home to mama" to run it.
There's antique cars, and nobody seems to yell "get a new xxx car". There's antique furniture, ditto. What's the deal about antique computing? The deal is that lots of big players can't keep sucking money if you step off the upgrade trail...
(Proud user of Word 97!)