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1. Comment - Windows XP Adoption Rates Slow

   (Jun 17, 2005 - 12:16 PM)

   I have a simple question for everyone. if it's not broken why why fix it?
   
   I'm not saying that you should never upgrade i'm just saying that upgrades should serve a real purpose not update the eye candy.
   
   I do a lot of work in embedded systems and other kinds of dedicated systems so my view is somewhat skewed on the subject.
   
   How many applications that people really use on a daily basis use any of the new features?
   How often is speed going to be more important than data integrity? especially when the difference is only half a second.
   
   I was at a customers place when there server went down. It runs bluebird's superdos to a tcpip interface for a didcated bookkeeping system. The power supply died shutting the machine of without warning. They lost two in progress transactions but kept the the rest.
   
   That is reliability, with that kind of data retention out of the box, who needs to upgrade?
   
   Computers are a tool to do a job. Job first, eye candy second. If the job isn't done then how much does the eye candy matter?