Originally Posted by
OFSO
I sure as hell don't go with this "it's new therefore it must be better" philosophy
So right!
I use Windows 7, because the "user trial" showed it was better for what I do than XP. For many users, XP may be better than Win 7.
I tried Win 8, removed it, and won't be going there.
I have three versions of one particular photo editing product: the v5 that I bought in 1998, v7 that I bought in 2003, and v 12 that I bought in 2011.
All three are installed on the PC (the package will allow that, where many won't).
v5 is the one I use every day - it loads virtually instantly when I click the icon in the taskbar. It does what I need to do, quickly and well.
v7 is bloated by comparison - does more things but all more slowly. Most aren't things I'd expect more than a tiny percentage of users to want to do. It has one function that I use occasionally, or I'd have dumped it.
v12 takes about TWO MINUTES to load. It fires up about half a dozen "sub screens", catalogues everything I've done since it last ran, and hasn't been used this year yet. It may soon be a candidate for the deleted folder.
I bought v7 because of the persuasive mailshot and the bargain offer they sent me: hyperbole in the extreme. v12 ditto but it cured me of paid updates. I now work on "If it ain't broken..."