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When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good?
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Windows 2000
It's never been great
Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows 8, and Windows 11. These are all bad iterations of Windows.
I used ME a lot and never had trouble. I think I had just the right hardware cuz I know that many people had a hard time.
Windows 11 seems to be fine, despite everyone whining constantly.
The ads everyone cries about? Can be disabled with a single option.
Slowness? Haven't experienced it.
11 didn't introduce anything, for me, that I couldn't already do. Some of the desktop management features aren't that bad and the UI is fine I guess. If you don't like it, turns out it's pretty easy to replace with a different shell.
Privacy concerns are pretty legitimate, but with about as much effort as getting a Linux distro set up and working you can lock that stuff down.
As someone who recently switched it is incredibly easy to get Linux Mint set up and working, far easier than tracking down where to find all the annoying ad settings I want to disable in Windows.
No, tracking down the settings to disable isn't that difficult, but I shouldn't have to, and Linux is even easier.
when they made it free
It's weird to not see any posts about Azure. I remember watching a keynote from Microsoft's CEO several years ago where he explicitly said the company's focus was on Azure and cloud applications, and that the role of Windows was simply to get you there. That's it. This is also inline with comments about Win7 being the last good OS because that's about when the transition started.
Windows 1.0; November 20, 1985.
It used to be "skip the evens". But since they themselves skipped 9, now it's "skip the odds".
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Windows 8 marked the point in my opinion. It's when they tried to start locking down the operating system and focusing heavily on the cloud. The adware began in this era as well.
I agree on the ads and bundled services, but the "windows is slow" stuff is horseshit. A tight build of Linux boots more quickly no doubt, but a fresh Win10 or 11 install, even with bloat, is up in under 30 seconds, and runs swiftly out of the box. This isn't "slow" by any definition.
Again, let's hate the other shit, let's hate on that together.
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Vista I think
According to South Park the movie, Windows 98
After 95.
Satya Nadella.
Google has worked hard to break up Microsoft's monopoly and Windows-Office lock in effect. The way Google designed Android and the eco system around it pushed out the model where you fully own your device. ("own" as in be in full control of what you bought).
Nowadays people are used to get things for the price of their personal data and/or spending half of the time using their device by watching ads.
As I see it, Microsoft has just adjusted their offering on the consumer market to what people are used to today.
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