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Noticed Edge was the default browser (lemmy.world)
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[-] oo1@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

+1

i have to use microshite crap every day.
It outdoes oracle at generating curse words.
and it gets worse. i'd take windows 2000 or nt4 over whatever shit they force on me at work.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

windows peaked at windows 7/xp then went down the drain

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I liked some earlier win10 versions too but that was also before I tried Linux.

[-] s_s@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

XP was a disaster, security-wise. Vista was better conceptually but the tech was undercooked and win7 was basically a re-skin of vista plus some extra maturity due to time.

Then, there's the entirety of the situation around those releases. Microsoft was so mismanaged under Ballmer that even though Windows 7 was maybe their best OS, it completely missed the smartphone revolution and set them back about a decade until they could be re-spun as a cloud technologies company.

Imagine how huge they'd be if they had successfully leveraged their desktop and business dominance to force their way on top of the mobile world.

Tl:dr Win7 was both Microsoft's best and worst product of all time.

this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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