"Gordon" <gbplinux******.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:g0hu8r$2p8$1@news.mixmin.net...
> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@unknownhost> wrote in message
> news:Oj85rKrtIHA.4952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>Windows Vista Help: Restore a backup created on a previous version of
>>Windows:
>>http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...ca1ab1033.mspx
>
>
> That's all very well, but WHY did MS make ALL their included backup
> utilities incompatible with each other? Why should someone NEED to
> download another utility just to restore backups made with MS Backup
> utilities?


If Microsoft made all their new and/or advanced software backwards
compatible with previous Microsoft software and third party software the OS
would be so bloated and complicated nobody would want to use it.
Vista is already bloated. Why make it more so? I certainly wouldn't
want an OS that crashed constantly due to conflicts caused by the complexity
of the OS itself.
The solution is simple. Download the utility you need.

C.B.


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