On Thu, 15 May 2008 22:45:35 +0100, "Gordon"
<gbplinux******.com.invalid> wrote:

>Surely SOMEONE at MS should have realised that many people, when prompted to
>upgrade to the next version of Windows, were going to use the in-built
>backup utility to backup their data before upgrading?
>It's nothing to do with bloat, and ALL to do with total un-joined up
>thinking and complete lack of common sense and planning.
>Which is one reason I don't touch the in-built MS backup functions with a
>barge pole.

General opinion is that the built-in backup function just plain
sucks anyway. Heck, most folks don't even KNOW about it, and if
they do, they don't know where to find it and/or how to install
it.