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    [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Windows is not “fine” aside from all the non-UI stuff, they’re UI is annoying and slow to me, they moved things behind extra clicks/commands to make it “clean”- stuff I actually use.

    And then there’s the whole tracking usage to drop adds in your notification thing… which is a privacy nightmare.

    [–] oo1@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    +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 1 year ago (2 children)

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

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] s_s@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year 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.