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

submitted 4 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] 6 points 4 months ago

When was Windows 1 released?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It used to be "skip the evens". But since they themselves skipped 9, now it's "skip the odds".

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

I hope you don't expect their next OS to be good, whether they call it 12 or otherwise. Skip all Windows from now on, IMO

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

when they made it free

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It was all downhill after Bob.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's never been great

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Windows 1.0; November 20, 1985.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

According to South Park the movie, Windows 98

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

After 95.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Vista I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (5 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

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