It's pretty simple actually.

Versions that add support for major new hardware/API's suck, until driver/application developers catch up with the new tech (including Microsoft internal developers...)

(1x) 1.0 > 2.0 > 2.1 I think I was still using an Amiga that generation... So I don't recall the details.
(3x) So 3.0 > 3.1 > 3.11 (Cooperative Multitasking, Protected memory mode)
(4x) 95 > 98 > 98 SE (Explorer, TCP/IP, COM interfaces)
(5x) (2K/ME) > XP > XP SP2 (an actual, but underused security model, removal of Real mode DOS, SFP, System Restore)
(6x) Vista > (Marketing skip) Seven > Seven (with patches) Added real 64 bit support, native IPv6, No longer Administrator as default user.
(8x) 8, 8.1, 9 (Tablet interface, SSD support, 'Metro'/RT)

I think having one of those would be a republican presidential candidate requirement.

Years ago I was the IT guy for a local government budget office.

After I stopped the servers from crashing any spending an hour rebuilding every day, and fixed the backup system so it actually backed up data, I had plenty of free time.

Instead of hiding in my office looking busy while playing MUDS/Nethack I took the time to sit with individual users, and quietly //observe their workflow.//

They spent most of the day comparing two columns of numbers (one from mainframe, one from SQL) for equality.

After a quick VBA prototype, they ended up with simple daily reports of where the numbers didn't match, saving about 40 hours a day between the 20 analysts.

The key thing many IT guys miss, is taking the time to fully understand what the users actually need/want; but instead jump to conclusions that everyone wants what a programmer wants.

As a trans-offended person, I'm offended by your reluctance to allow people to be offended.

Some of us enjoy being shocked, offended, and triggered so stop cis-comfort-zone oppressing us.

... also traffic cameras.

How does the logic of this decision impact future 'legalize' campaigns for marijuana?

Some of us just don't care about some One Percenter's waterfront mansion.

I used to set lead type in my parents print shop as a kid, and I'm perfectly fine, even after setting lead type in my parents print shop, it had no effect on me, just like setting lead type in my parents print shop.

The Titanic == Itanium

*cough* Microsoft .net

Each letter in an english word only stores one bit worth of data on average.

see: http://www.maximumcompression....

And moist anjone can eaiily correc simxle errors automaxically while reeding in there heads.

I'm sure mistakes were made while carving stone tablets, and they just said 'Fuck it, it's fine.'

I was at a Pho shop the other day, with etched glass windows reading 'NODDLE SOUP' (in Comic Sans...)

First read as "Flesh eating spiders"

all the 'nope' in the world isn't enough.

And Prison inmate are considered paragons of morality?

Talk about moving the goalposts...

My point was, I've heard of 'upstate New York' without ever coming within 1000 miles of it. But no one here, that I know of, ever called any part of Washington 'upstate', so it's a meaningless description.

I've lived in Washington 40 years, and I'm never heard of a town/county named 'upstate'.