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the idea of course, was that Microsoft purposely, subtly sabotaged any Windows 95 installation so people would be forced to upgrade to Windows 98.

This has GOT to be the biggest bit of horsepuckey I've ever read.

Do you keep an adequate supply of tinfoil around? Watch for black helecopters?

I can hear it now: Hey, Ivan. Write some particularly bad code today. We need to slow down Win95 so sales of Win98 will pick-up.

none the less, the track record is there for all to see. the more you update, the more likely legacy stuff will break.

regardless of the *HUGE* number of applications that stopped working, check the performance of a typical system running SP2 vs. SP1 on Windows XP sometime. i too used to say, nah, thats being paranoid. unfortunately, M$ is a company with absolutely no scruples. check out how M$'s vaunted anti-spyware stopped flagging Claria items after M$ bought them...

here's a true story for you: M$ had this brand new operating system called Windows 2000 that was going to be their flagship and make them a bundle. the server Windows 2000 ran great, much safer, more robust and solid than NT. great! err, there was a problem though. the corporate side only uses so many servers! most of the machines are *clients* running Windows 98 SE.

and guess what? Windows 98SE as a client runs rings around Windows 2000 client! bummer. what to do?

the solution? Windows ME is born! problem solved! Windows 2000 ekes out a win against the bloated Windows ME and the market clowns have something to sell the corporate CIO's who actually look at benchmarks (but clearly not very closely). as for the sheep, they've too stupid to know better and will run whatever DELL installs on their new machines. the M$ market droids will tell them ME is an improvement over 98SE and the sheep will look puzzled for a second, and take it as gospel, feeling a bit uncomfortable for a minute while they almost formed a thought in their head, but were able to suppress it! phew, that was close!