▲ 325 ▼ When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good? (lemmy.blahaj.zone) submitted 2 years ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 180 comments fedilink hide all child comments Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn't always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children) How bad is security if you still have Windows 7 installed today? Looks like 3% of windows users worldwide could help answer that question. Well, up to 3%… guessing not too many of them are too savvy. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Remorhaz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that those machines are corporate owned and running legacy systems that are hanging on by a thread. Every year someone talks about replacing Ol’ Smoky but the new system would need to go through validation and that costs time and money so they limp along for another year permalink fedilink source parent [–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I try to not connect mine to the internet anymore permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Remorhaz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that those machines are corporate owned and running legacy systems that are hanging on by a thread. Every year someone talks about replacing Ol’ Smoky but the new system would need to go through validation and that costs time and money so they limp along for another year permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I try to not connect mine to the internet anymore permalink fedilink source parent
