Feb
2
By Pene Beavan Horton
Have you noticed that quite often some product you've known and loved and used for years is suddenly replaced by a new, improved version that you find totally inferior?
Remember when Windows 7 replaced Windows 3 and you discovered that whoever dreamed up Windows 7 had rocks in his head? That his (we're still talking about the programmer and his team here), logic was about as akin to yours as that of the guy who tried to teach bears to tap dance?
You would think that when you have a command that turns something on, that beside it or near it or somewhere in its vicinity you would find a command that turns it off?
I’m not going to bore you with the specifics about the frenzy of frustration in learning to use Windows 7, but I am still reeling from trying to figure out the maniacal logic of whoever programmed it. All I can suggest is that he must be related to the guy who insists on putting the model and serial numbers of your stove underneath, at the back.
Having finally, over many months, learned to love Windows 7, (and successfully avoid Windows 8), Windows 7 is being replaced by the new, improved version … Windows 10 … in 2015. (“Windows 10 represents the first step of a whole new generation of Windows,” says the blurb on the Internet.) Maybe tap dancing bears are coming to town …
On to your favourite face cream that you have been faithfully using and liking for the past many years. Suddenly it is no longer on the pharmacy shelves. Where is it? Are they ordering more? No, sorry, the manufacturer isn't making it any more. The replacement turns out to be utterly inferior from the ceramic pot the cream is in to the actual cream.
If this happens to you, all you can do is wring your hands and try to find something else that may work, but you miss your old friend. How can they do this to you without asking if you mind? Easily, apparently.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it! I'm not saying that everything new and improved is worse than what it is replacing, I'm just saying that some things don't need fixing... like good music, good manners, good morals … good face cream … please…