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Originally Posted by Katsunami
With regard to dropping 16-bit emulation on Windows x64... that's not to force you to upgrade. That's an unfortunate inconvenience for you.
At some point, it just becomes economically unfeasible and sometimes technically impossible to keep operating systems up to date, AND keep them backwards compatible with 15+ year old applications; not to mention very old hardware. That's even more difficult, as often there are no new drivers for old hardware (economically unfeasible), and computers are even losing the required connections.
That is where virtual machines such as Virtual Box and emulators such as DOSBox come in. They actually emulate a complete, old system, so the operating system doesn't need to support it. That way, the operating system can by shiny new, supporting all the latest technologies, while the virtual machine provides and old computer to run old software on.
At this point, the only catch is 3D software such as games, and some heavy multimedia software... as you have already experienced in the case of PowerDVD.
And no; I don't buy or use new software just to use new software. I'm one of the last people to do so. If it works, it works. But if a new version provides me a noticable upgrade in functionality, speed or convenience, then I'll definitely upgrade.
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In answer to the above, the Google's new Chromebook system answers all those shortcomings. Every time you cut your machine on, a totally new uptodate system is loaded.