I am all for the adoption of new and cutting edge technologies. After all, what self respecting geek doesn't drool at the mouth when something new and shiny comes out? However, I believe that the legacy support in Windows is one of its biggest strengths and a major advantage over other operating systems. Legacy support is a must have if ...

I saw this article on the web (http://www.windowsvienna.com/) about the next version of Windows, Microsoft Windows 7. In it, the author mentioned that rumour has it that Microsoft is planning to rewrite Windows 7 from scratch. This means that backward compatibility with legacy applications or hardware or old applications would be sacrificed. ...