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When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Satya Nadella.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

probably 8 or 10

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Windows Vista was the start in my eyes. XP (pro) was amazing. And then Vista came out and it broke a lot of things. Security was garbage, applications would constantly lose root files

Vista only lasted 2 years before they went back and turned it into Windows 7 with a few small tweaks, but more or less the exact same thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

98, XP, 7, 10: Good.

ME, Vista, 8, 11: Bad.

It's Star Trek Movies all over again. We just need to hang on for Windows 12.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

98 still had plenty of jank, but it was worlds better than 95. I would add 3/3.11 to the "good" list if only because that was basically the only other option for a lot of people and it did what it needed to. I don't recall personally seeing windows 1 or 2.

edit: I guess I could throw NT mostly into the good section, but I mostly just did tech support for it rather than using it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Windows 98 launch demo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It always was like that. Have you heard of Windows Vista? ME?

XP is cool though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ever since it's not their biggest source of revenue anymore

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