Microsoft tipping

[Alan Jackson]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:56:54 -0600
Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> What I don't understand is why people want to upgrade just because something 
> has new features when they don't use 90%+ of the current features.  At what 
> point does what you have become good enough?
> 
>      -- Alma

It's not necessarily a choice. If the new version creates files that are
not downward compatible, and I am a business, one upgrade in the company
forces upgrades everywhere. I've been in that situation. It doesn't apply
to home users because they all just steal it anyway. I swear, every time
I complain to someone about them sending me a word or excel file, they
offer me the use of their CD to copy the code and tell me that someone
else gave it to them.

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