&gt; If they&#x27;re so desperate to make people upgrade, they should at least have had the decency to pull an Apple and ship an entire compatibility-VM with their new OS (like Mac OS X 10.0 did) to minimize the chance of a problem.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how that&#x27;d work when it comes to hardware&#x2F;drivers. For example, I know somebody with a transcription foot-pedal (USB) that just isn&#x27;t compatible with newer versions of Windows.