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

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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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[-] FattestMattest@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

According to South Park the movie, Windows 98

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

After 95.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Vista I think

[-] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I agree on the ads and bundled services, but the "windows is slow" stuff is horseshit. A tight build of Linux boots more quickly no doubt, but a fresh Win10 or 11 install, even with bloat, is up in under 30 seconds, and runs swiftly out of the box. This isn't "slow" by any definition.

Again, let's hate the other shit, let's hate on that together.

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[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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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[-] blackouttripleseven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

probably 8 or 10

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

Windows 98 launch demo.

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