How about including an option for the Win7 start menu? Nope? Too difficult?
WinXP and Vista must have been designed by some AMAZING developers to have included two Start menu layout options.
Nope, I think it simply means that they'll move to a less-customer-friendly schedule for dropping support for older operating systems.
There seems to be a suspicious amount of compatibility issues that have cropped up in Win8 and I haven't heard a good reason why yet. Why doesn't Office 2003 work on it? I know why Office 2000 and 2002/XP didn't work on =>Vista perfectly, not so sure about Office 2k3 and Win8.
On the office front, you're surprised a package 10 years old and 4 revisions old doesn't work on a new OS? No offense, but I don't count backward compatibility in terms of decades.
In 2003, they were on a much older version VC++ or whatever they wrote it in than they are today. It's easily possible the base api's used are no longer available in 8. It's equally possible I guess they simply didn't want to support it. 10 years is a LONG time to support a software product version. Most companies go back only 3-4 years worth. They aren't making OS's, but still. Just because XP got an extended life is not a reason to support office 2003 forever. Admittedly when I first read the post I thought it was odd it wasn't supported as well until I recalled it's release date.
Stunning that some still won't let the start button issue go. It's dead.