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[–] 61 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

That joke was all the rage towards the end of the 1900s

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  • [–] 22 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (5 children)

    Which is ironic because towards the end of the 90s is when Microsoft had the only 4 products of theirs that were any good:

    • Windows NT 5 (honorable mention to NT 4)
    • Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
    • Microsoft USB 2.0 ergonomic mouse with scroll wheel
    • Microsoft flight simulator

    I can’t recall them ever producing anything else of value

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    MS Office especially Word and Excel. They started fucking it up at the 365 era but Office 2003 was solid.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago*

    I will say that excel has always been a solid product, but I haven’t used it since Office for Mac 2004, which was a solid product. PowerPoint was also pretty good, back in the day. I hated Lotus 123, but I really do miss Lotus Notes. that was the preferred method of logging calls when I worked at Dell tech-support, and it was awesome.

    But I am primarily a designer, so as someone who heavily relied on professional page layout tools like Quark and, later, Adobe InDesign, so I have a special burning place in my heart for Microsoft Word— or, rather, what it became.

    I could handle word 6.0, but after that, it was just a monster.

    Oh, and fuck outlook.

    I’d rather like Apple’s Pages app. Simple, clean, and purely functional.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    The original Xbox was fucking awesome, even more so if you jail broke it.

    Windows Phone was arguably great too. Absolutely superb interface that really set it apart from iOS and the Android clones of the time.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago*

    Both Plex and Kodi are forks of the original XBMC. Its legacy lives on.

    The Windows Phone tile interface was quite interesting from a conceptual UX and aesthetic standpoint, but Microsoft didn’t implement it very well, and the software itself had some serious issues, both in performance and from an architectural perspective. Then, of course, was the lack of app support, while developers rushed to support the iPhone.

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  • [–] 4 points 19 hours ago

    Checks out, i'm too young to consciously have experienced any of those four (and later never been interested in any version of a flight simulator) and have yet to come across a version that is any good. Funnily the best Microsoft products were only considered good after they replaced it with a shittier version (eg win xp, win 7) and the good product was only relatively good in comparison to the new product. I did use a lot of msn though, but that was only good because no used an alternative.

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago*

    .NET turned out to be pretty good... eventually. Mind you, it still has ridiculous parts like none of the GUI toolkits it ships with being crossplatform (except WinForms, barely). But compared to other development platforms it's not really worse than the rest.

    Of course they're also not really selling it. The related programs they do sell (like Visual Studio and Azure DevOps) absolutely suck.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Ironically, merging the NT kernel into Windows made Windows better, but also made NT worse.

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