I hate windows 8!!!

Why oh why oh why windows 8? What's wrong with windows 7? I just got used to it and it is great...ok not as brill as XP sp2 but less resource hungry and beats 10 kinds of sh*t out of Vista...actually, remember windows ME? Awful...Windows 98 mind you was perhaps THE classic...but then of course what was wrong with windows 3.1?

Perhaps we should form a conservation movement: protect Windows 7!!! Well, ok, protect Windows 98!! Or 3.1. Bugger it: save MS-DOS! Preserve the natural (technological) habitat of MS-DOS! Ooh yeah and let's not forget the internet: bring back Alta-Vista as THE search engine! In fact - get rid of the internet! Preserve the technological purity that was pre-internet....

Ridiculous? Why of course! I mean...windows 7 is better than MS-DOS for me...but do I want more change with windows 8? Yes; of course. I want change for the better if it is better (and not another Windows Vista). Ok, but how do we know it is better? Er...well we could do the analysis of drivers, objectives and requirements?

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So far so smug...but "what about red squirrels?" I hear you ask.

Yes, they are under threat from grey squirrels in the UK. There are only a few places left you can find them. So some people are trying preserve red squirrels. And why would they do that? Because red squirrels are better than grey? Like MS-DOS is better than Windows 7? If red squirrels were better than grey then grey squirrels would be under threat or would never have made any inroads against red...

Besides, where do you stop? Red squirrels have competed against other animals...actually of course, mammals replaced dinosaurs...what do we want - a return to dinosaurs? Or should we go back to single celled organisms?

And let's not forget the racialism of "native species" - people trying to get rid of rhododendrons because they are not "native" to Britain...and when would that have been then? In a hundred years will they be native if they are still here? If you substitute the word rhododendrons with "Indian nationals" you get a pretty scary statement...conservation or fascism?

So - why fear change? Change is inevitable and unstoppable and is the only constant in the universe. Right now today is not some golden point in time when everything is just right and nothing should change from here on in...and things will change...the planet will get warmer/cooler/whatever...species will go extinct (by the way: so many conservationists tell us about the numbers that are "threatened" or have gone extinct...what about the number of species coming in to being - and they are! Change happens...). Humans will go the way of the dinosaurs and what do conservationists want to do - preserve the primal soup? Good luck with that one!

So is all change good? No of course not: look at nuclear waste and the like...very dumb. But how will we know what changes we can make/are making are changes for the better? Er...well we could do the analysis of driver, objectives and requirements and then see if the changes are delivering those requirements?

Welcome to world of business analysis: saving the universe!