Char Jackson wrote in
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My point there is that it all takes work. Underneath it all, the average
office user is having to upgrade again and again just to stay where they
want to be!

That's actually not true, at least in my experience. Plenty of office
users around my area are still using W2k and XP, I'd say a large
majority, quite a few years after Vista and 7 have been released.

Good. Just means they ARE digging their heels in. Not that many firms can
upgrade whenever M$ insists on it. Those who do are effectively useful
idiots. Both groups exist, with many people in each. But the ones who have to
know their stuff, use it, live with it, pay for it, or rely on it for
specific hardware they invested a lot of money in, they will save the rest of
us from the sillier excesses of 'cloud computing' and the like.

Most of 'Web2' is driven by celebrity gossip pages, overloaded blog pages,
and people think they need that stuff. The demands it makes are equivalent to
having a never-ending direct debit mandate on the bank accounts. Once they
have to pay for the profligacy they'll change their tune. eBay already set
seller contract terms to exactly that kind of bank account access, largely
because of the extra costs careless sellers incurred. If we want to avoid
being hit by measures aimed at curbing excesses by idiots, we have to stop
thinking like those idiots. Until we do that, it doesn't matter what else we
do.