Not a fair comparison because the Swiss can't rez.

I see this a lot in terminal application replacements. Without a mouse there was a LOT of attention to workflow, and what was presented on which screen. The problem is that you actually have to train people and using the application is considered a skill in and of itself. It takes time to learn sure, but in the end that employee would be far more capable. No one wants to invest in employees like that. It's easier to put people in front of "generic software" that can be used with "general computer skills". Employees are a lot easier to dispose of due to low barrier to entry.

Speaking of workflow, I've noticed that "web based" implementations are obviously done by people who think just being a web page is good enough. Productivity is not even on the radar.

Depends on how much those users pay you.

Hardware fails, and then you can be shafted. I'm running into exactly this kind of problem on Windows 98 machines (serial mouse needed, USB support for very very specific things, SATA?... haha). In situations where it's just software running on some generic PC this isn't a problem because with foresight you just buy a spare, but sometimes the machine is only given to you by a vendor, and only set up by them. And it's not like quality control in the PC industry (well what they give you anyway) will guarantee any reasonable lifespan either.

I think another lesson shows here: even when 740 out of 833 people give something a one star review, 20 people will still give it 5 stars.

But what if the car were Battletoads?

What exactly is involved in a "platform update"?

It seems to be stopping everyone from cheating at the moment.

Not a surprising quote considering their obnoxious web crawler behavior.

I can't, webring is down again

Sounds like my ex-wife. That's one experience I don't need to see replicated by technology.

No flash for IE10 on Windows 7. Another reason not to use Windows 8.

I'd be very interested in that. One thing I've started to wonder about is what will happen to my website after my death. Archive.org stopped archiving changes on my site in 2005 and it only did a so-so job of capturing things anyway. Ages after I'm gone, it's likely http websites may simply have gone away. I've started looking into services that will preserve my site for historical reasons, but I'd feel a lot better having it among a dedicated catalogue in a historical preservation.

SATIN

Why? Microsoft still sells you the OS whether it's 7 or 8. I think we're way past the point where people give a damn about what OS is on the PC. People buy a shiny new computer for Christmas because it's "faster".