guilbert53
master brummie
Why do the keep on changing, is it what they call progress. Before that I had XP and could not see anything wrong with that either. Eric
Do you still drive the same car you did 40 years ago?. I bet if you went back to it you would be shocked at how primitive it would seem.
The same with Windows.
While we may not always realise it there are thousands and thousands of features being added to Windows for each release.
Think of all the things we do now on a PC that we could not do before - support for USB, support for digital devices like cameras, mobile phones, ipads etc, support for wi fi, for video, for gaming and so on.
Also note we now have touch screens, and Windows 7 has support for touch screens built in.
Also support for larger memory and larger hard disks. Remember when XP came out most people probably had less than 256Mb of memory and a 20Gb hard drive. Now many people have 2 or 3 or 4 Gb of memory and 500Gb or 1Tb hard drives. Also try running Windows XP on a PC with more than about 3.5Gb of memory. It wont use anything above 3.5 because it cant cope with it. But Windows 7 (some versions) can cope with way more than 4Gb of memory.
So all this function needs to be added to Windows, written and tested. So every couple of years they re-package it all up and give it a new release name. Note also of course that each new release makes them some money so we must not forget that.
So Windows, and all other software we use, will contine to get updated and changed to keep up to date with modern hardware and modern requirements.