If you want new features then you upgrade.

Interesting article at eWeek regarding Microsoft not putting the XP SP2 features in 2000. Well no duh. To me it just makes sense. If you want new features then naturally you upgrade to the newest version.

Sure I'd love to have only 500 miles on my '01 Protege but I can't. So I'll have to upgrade to the '04 version to get it with all the extra items thrown in.

The technology world is crazy sometimes. It just doesn't make sense sometimes when Microsoft gets bad press for not upgrading an old technology that people should be trying to get off of not stay on. Hey I don't work for Microsoft but it's the only business I see that people would even try to get new features in an old version.

Oh well...let me take my Protege out for a drive backwards...maybe the miles will go away if I do that.