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Why does Microsoft keep on adding new and confusing 'features' to programs that worked well enough before ?

It is a http: site so remove the s in https: in your address line after clicking, then press return to actually go there
https://www.helpinwindows10.com/get-help-with-file-explorer-in-windows-10/

Posted - April 15, 2018

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  • 5354
    As if I could make a link that was clickable
    https://www.helpinwindows10.com/get-help-with-file-explorer-in-windows-10/
      April 15, 2018 5:32 PM MDT
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  • 5614
    Easy to answer question. If you had light bulbs that forever last would you ever need buy more? When companies make a product too good they then come up with gimmicks to have you buy all over again. This post was edited by O-uknow at April 16, 2018 5:47 AM MDT
      April 15, 2018 5:41 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    I would be a lot less inclined to buy from Microsoft
      April 15, 2018 6:37 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    But there was never a lack of errors to be fixed. Still aren't.
      April 16, 2018 11:33 AM MDT
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  • 2658
    if it ain't broke, don't fix it - Wiktionary
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_it_ain%27t_broke,_don%27t_fix_it

    Proverb. Leave something alone; avoid attempting to correct, fix, or improve what is already sufficient. This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at April 16, 2018 11:33 AM MDT
      April 15, 2018 7:18 PM MDT
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  • 5614
    Aye, indeed but the problem then becomes the steady stream of profit slows is intermittent and becomes broken. What to do? You turn old customers into new customers by making them think that good enough ain't enough.
      April 15, 2018 9:14 PM MDT
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  • 2658
    Agree, additionally, you have to justify your position...
      April 16, 2018 5:52 AM MDT
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  • 2706
    A lot of it may have to do with keeping up with the Jones's. They'll do what they think they need to do to stay at the top of the food chain. Even if it means forgetting about or alienating the ones who buy their products. :)
      April 16, 2018 3:30 AM MDT
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  • "Job Justification" ... if you can't come up with a way to improve, embellish or change it, then we don't need you, do we. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at April 17, 2018 8:22 PM MDT
      April 16, 2018 9:48 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    'Cos they can, they have no real competition so can afford not to care about the users and their needs or wants, yet anyway; but they don't know the differences between "progress", "improvement", "up-grade", "up-date" and "quality".

    So says one who fell for WIN-10 but reverted the poor computer to 7 after realising what a shambolic mass of gimmicky presentation and wrecked applications, that Windows had become. Then spent hours restoring may half-dozen web-site registrations: WIN-10 had wiped them out. 
      April 17, 2018 3:48 PM MDT
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