I was talking to a Geek Squad member in Best Buy, while waiting to get my Windows Vista computer back, about how frustrating it is when I have to get a new computer with a new version of Windows, and I have to either get used to whatever changes Microsoft made for that new version, or find ways to revert the changes back to what I'm familiar with. He told me, "Then you're going to HATE Windows 8."
When I got my Win7 laptop, I went online trying to find information on work-arounds to make the Win7 start menu like Vista's (I couldn't find the list of recently-opened documents in Win7's), to replace Win7's Wordpad with Vista's (Win7's wouldn't do some things that I'm accustomed to in Wordpad, and I loathe that "ribbon" interface), and to add the "copy to folder" and "move to folder" functions back to the right-click menu. And I DID find them.
The fact is that there are people who come up with ways to make each new Windows version act more like a previous, more-familiar version, and there are people, like me, who depend on them. To me, that says that Microsoft doesn't listen to its customer base. But then, they're effectively a monopoly, so they don't need to, so they can continue to make money while forcing on us whatever glitzy change excites their techies.
"Not all change is growth [or progress], just as not all movement is forward." --Ellen Glasgow
[Edited for spelling.]
