Why

Why is it everytime windows comes out with a new operating system the
consumer has to go through about a year worth of trouble and heartache before
the operating system is even close to running? Especially gamers.

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Because...

- An operating system with millions of lines of code written under time
restriction in order to meet corporate and marketing expectations is bound
to have unresolved bugs, this is actually an accepted practice in many
industries
- An operating system designed to run thousands of pieces of different
hardware in millions (perhaps billions) of different configurations is bound
to run into some unanticipated conflicts, despite rigrous testing. Sometimes
too, end users employ non-specification configurations that only compound
the issue.
- Hardware vendors see no profit in writing and distributing new drivers to
support old peripherals, preferring instead to force consumers to purchase
new aftermarket addons.
- Software vendors see no profit in patching or updating old programs,
relying instead on the OS vendor to make everything backwards compatible
(something that is not alwys feasible due to conflicts or security concerns)
- Software vendors loathe having to change the way they write programs to
meet new design parameters
- Some people exist to find flaws

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"tom jonesthethird" <tomjonesthethird.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Why is it everytime windows comes out with a new operating system the
> consumer has to go through about a year worth of trouble and heartache
> before
> the operating system is even close to running? Especially gamers.
>
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> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
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