Ezine 186 – Vista Features Removed from Windows 7Deprecate is a strange word; the only context I have seen for this term is when a new computer system removes previous features. Also note that the verb deprecate should not be confused with its cousin depreciate, which is what seems to be happening to my house price! Introduction to Deprecated Features in Windows 7This week I have selected some of the items in Vista that you won’t find in Windows 7. What I find is that when Microsoft deprecate a feature it confuses us old-timers because we keep looking for them! Deprecating utilities or applets also irritates those who can remember Microsoft boasting that you could do everything on a new Windows operating system that you could do on its ancestors. I guess that Microsoft’s backwards compatibility promise was broken when XP was launched, and has been conveniently forgotten in Windows 7. It’s probably a sign of my aging, rather than any dramatic change in society, but one of my biggest disappointments is when supermarkets, banks and computer programs change things that don’t need changing, especially when the ‘New’ version is worse. Fair play to the RFC (Request for comments), their numbers never change, a practice that should be applied to TechNet articles, and extended to setting in stone the url of webpages. Vista Features Deprecated in Windows 7
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