PC cams that previously worked fine are no longer usable. Digital camera software used for a year or two previously will no longer install and run on the new computer. Scanners, will no longer work.
Well, DUH! If your friends RTFM, or even ran the XP compatibility wizard, they wouldn't have had to tear their hair out. It is a well known fact that drivers and software compatible with Win98 and before need to be upgraded for XP, because XP is a BRAND NEW operating system that is not necessarily backwards compatible with the drivers and software from previous systems.
Your friends are like most people. They are too damned impatient to take a few extra minutes to do things right. That's why there are millions of VCRs out there with the date flashing. Then when things go wrong, they quickly blame the manufacturer. Computers are very sophisticated devices and they require a little knowledge and patience.
Your friends are like most people. They are too damned impatient to take a few extra minutes to do things right. That's why there are millions of VCRs out there with the date flashing. Then when things go wrong, they quickly blame the manufacturer. Computers are very sophisticated devices and they require a little knowledge and patience.
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First Microsoft DOS built itself on the back of the IBM hardware and it's software apps base.
Microsoft DOS didn't make it big by porting is OS to other hardware platform did they?
The formula in the PC boom was Microsoft software (DOS) IBM firmware(BIOS) & Intel hardware(X86 cpu) and IBM was the big boy that made the PC the standard.
Other then back engineer the IBM bios with small changes so they could win in court that they were not violating IBM's copyright (The fact that IBM was the big bad guy at the time is,in my opinion, the reason they lost)
Did Bill Gates cry over this.. Hell no..(nor should he) The IBM BIOS his OS ran on had become public domain by court order.
Unless this happen there would be no Compaq, Corona, or any other IBM clones for his non-exclusively licensed OS to run on.
Now he could have try to port his OS to other hardware platform but then he would not have that nice big base of app for IBM to run.
Microsoft is in the place it is today in good part because IBM's BIOS was "pirated" and the court let it stand.
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If only more people understood these two points.
Bravo!