We've all seen the commercials ( "I'm Joe, and I'm a PC". Yeah, and you failed an IQ test.) and read about how the deadline for XP has been extended, and windows 7 will probably be released in 2009. But this is nothing new. On the Microsoft website, it states that their products are designed with something called a "Planned Lifecycle", which to me sounds a lot like Planned Obsolesence. Remember that phrase? People used to get pretty freaking pissed when they even thought this was the case. I mean, who would want to invest in something that was designed to be useless after a certain period of time passed, regardless of how long that time period was? Apparently we would, because people still buy Windows products.
If something has a planned lifecylce of forty years, doesn't anyone wonder how much longer it would have lasted if it had not been DESIGNED to die? Why not make a product last AS LONG AS POSSIBLE? Even more important, why not BUY a product that is made this way? I guess I just don't understand Microsoft, or it's customers. But I sure would be pissed if I bought Vista, and then had to buy another OS a year later because the first one was crap, and even more mad knowing (based on past experience) that the next one could easily be crap as well.
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