Drew, I'd be the last one to tell you that "You're Wrong!" because for one man with one computer and an opinion, you're probably right, at least within your own realm, but.........
I'm not one man with one computer and an opinion. I'm a professional computer tech with hundreds of customers and hopefully getting more all the time, that someday will take home a new computer, probably with a NON-Touchscreen monitor and wonder "What the heck is this?".
At that point, I'll need to do SOMETHING to give them a computer that they can actually sit down to and DO something, if it's no more than playing some Solitaire or checking their email.
I've always been able to do this, from the early days, when Windows 95 first came out, to now and Windows 7.
I can make a Win-7 computer run much faster and still look and act like XP Classic.
I can also activate Windows Mail on Win-7 to work just like Outlook Express 6, which is what my older customers want.
They, like most of the rest of the world, like continuity, not drastic change.
So obviously we're traveling down completely different roads toward different destinations. So both our approaches are correct, for where we're headed. Eh? (Comprende Amigo?)
Long diatribes with lots of reference links may be just what some folks need, but for me (and a few other old timers), they just give me eye strain.
Anyone else going out to celebrate St Patric's day on the 17th? Meet ya at
Beef O'Brady's The first pint is on me!
O'Shadow