What to do about toxic tech waste after upgrades?

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I understand that upgrades and new technology are very important to your
business. However the lack of support for older systems adds to the mountains
of toxic tech waste that the west imports to Africa, India and China. The
cycle of obsolescence must end. Please expect more resistance and protest
over tech waste in the future.
 
J

John W. Vinson

I understand that upgrades and new technology are very important to your
business. However the lack of support for older systems adds to the mountains
of toxic tech waste that the west imports to Africa, India and China. The
cycle of obsolescence must end. Please expect more resistance and protest
over tech waste in the future.
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Evidently you are assuming that this message will reach Microsoft executives.
It won't, except indirectly or by someone choosing to forward it. Microsoft
hosts this technical support newsgroup for Microsoft Access database
developers, but all of us who answer questions are volunteers, not Microsoft
employees.

Research your forum before you post attacks, however justified they might be.
 
B

bcap

I've never known an Access upgrade to produce any toxic tech waste at all
(except the poisonous expletives it might cause us to shout at the screen!)
 
W

WDSnews

Did you say "Justified"? John, are you agreeing with this idiocy? Imagine
if upgrades never happened. Imagine how much more time and power we would
consume doing things in older versions of our software. Consider the
hardware; how many fewer watts per MIP do we consume? Consider the savings
in consumption due to telecommuting, communication, and other technologies.

According to this idiocy, people would still drive 40 miles to do a
spreadsheet with a pencil... or worse; MS Multiplan.

Consider the people of Africa. At what point in time will we cease to
improve technology? And thus they can finally afford older, but equal
technology? ...it's idiocy to think like that. Africans should be free to
use whatever technology they can afford.
 
J

John W. Vinson

John, are you agreeing with this idiocy?
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No.

It was an inappropriate post. It would still be an inappropriate post even if
it were justifiable.
 
T

Tony Toews [MVP]

bcap said:
I've never known an Access upgrade to produce any toxic tech waste at all
(except the poisonous expletives it might cause us to shout at the screen!)
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Tony
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