This depends on your beliefs and level of awareness and conspiratorial bent.

I've worked in IT for years and gone from Dos, to Windows 3.1, to Win 95, XP, and all the way to Windows 7.

I ask myself what exactly has any of these successive releases of windows provided for me? And I come up dry.
It's just an operating system in which I run software apps.

What Microsoft does (and other large software providers) is simply tweak things around, make them look and feel different and in the process hide away lots of settings and security measures that were previously readily visible.

They don't want people blocking advertising and being security savvy imo. All these big companies are in league with each other. Microsoft, Google, the anti-virus companies, broadband providers and so on. Microsoft releases versions of Windows full of gaps, holes and bugs that can be exploited. That allows viruses to be created and be a viable threat and that creates the market for anti-virus companies. It's a protection racket any way you cut it.

When broadband was in its infancy and many of us were still using 56K modems to surf the Net, Microsoft helped the broadband movement by releasing a crap new version of Windows, full of bugs and exploitable holes and then provided the solution to it all called "Service Pack 2".

This SP2 was so humongous in size that it was impossible to download it from the Net using an old 56K modem. So people were pretty much forced to buy into broadband and sign up to monthly subscriptions so they could get SP2 and be safe. The strategy worked quite well and now we all have broadband.

Today, Windows and software developers all work together. MS creates a new version of Windows and "magically" all the software apps out there are unable to operate on that new operating system (MS make sure of that). So the developers then develop a new version of their software (say Photoshop) and now everyone is on a ticking timebomb schedule to pay for a new version or face their existing version becoming unsupported.

It's all a neat scam imo.

Generally I don't upgrade software ever. I work with what I have for as long as is humanly possible. As a result I get stability and no hassle. I have Windows 7 because it came with my laptop. No intention of going to Win 8. It won't provide anything useful for me.

In the light of day I would have liked to edit the above as it is downright rude.

Oops - once again.

In the light of day I would have liked to edit the above as it is downright rude.

Oops - once again.

Realist:

Keep it short bro - eh 'boring' - and I work on computers!

OK - may as well make it plain: can't be arsed to read it all.

Dun.

haha, makes one wonder what makes a talker call himself a realist.
Yeah, I agree, the Readers Digest version please.

The quick and easy way to express those statements is to simply post:

TLDR

(Too long didn't read)

Don't be put off Realist, I love reading and absorbing what you write. It's good to know all the in's and out's.

Keep doing what you're doing Realist.

Yes, he does make very good and interesting points.

My sense of humour can be a little challenging .

Realist is up forrit though for sure.