![]() ![]() The pain and expense of dealing with upgrades would be gone. If this were possible we might update all of our computers every two to three years rather than every six to eight. In other words: Why do I need to reinstall MS Office (or whatever) from scratch, ever? In our case we would probably devote an entirely separate physical drive to applications, just as we do for data. What I mean by that is that your "Programs" directory could be moved to a completely new computer with a fresh OS install and you are up and running instantly. If applications installed with independence from the OS this would be very different. In a typical transition we might build a parallel system, keep the old one around, start using the new one and refer to the old one if anything was left behind (small apps, settings and configurations, customizations, etc.)īecause of this we do not upgrade hardware or OS as quickly as we might like to. It's quite an investment in time, money and pain-in-the-ass factor. Our engineering workstations require somewhere in the order of two weeks to fully setup from scratch. There's one very specific aspect of older operating systems that seems to have been lost forever: OS/App independence. What I want most from Microsoft is to, in a weird way, go backwards to the days of DOS. ![]()
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