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But Windows ~~10~~ 11 is going to be the last version of Windows!
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This is why I am on linux.
Where the fuck is Windows 2000 Advanced Server? The shiniest turd of them all
Excuse me say what? 2000 was a huge leap forward for reliability, uptime and Active Directory, blew the doors off every version before it, home and commercial.
Was it still Windows? I did say shiniest.
Windows 98 still had DOS built in right? I kind of have an itch to install it in a vm or something.
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Win ME is the 98 image but the rock is on the smaller branch
When they combined CE, ME and NT now that was a solid product.
ME was crap, NT was a workhorse (as long as you didn't try to install new stuff too often) and CE... was a wird alien no one know exactly what to do with it (almost had the potential but Microsoft blew it as usual). Win2K was a fine rather stable beast.
CE… was a wird alien no one know exactly what to do with it
Windows CE had the portable device market absolutely locked down circa 2003 -- not including Blackberry which had all the smartphone market, but CE had everything else. And then MS just said "fuck this market completely" and gave up.
My favorite thing about CE was that Microsoft unironically referred to it as "WinCE". It just doesn't get better than that.
I think about that joke all the time, good ol' CEMENT
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Why skip 95 and put a blank in for 9. Windows 95/98 are the reason why there is no windows 9. Far too many lazy programmers make software and drivers that abbreviated to windows9 because there were two versions. Still nice try, I guess.
Because the omission is notable and funny, even if they had their reasons
I've noticed a trend that as I understand more, some things become more funny but most things become less funny. I think it's because counterintuitiveness is funny but when understanding increases, the exposed complexity becomes more intuitive.
There were four versions that were useful for their time. Accurate.
Windows 9 looks nice, I'll take that one
I think Win10 started like that, but with time parts fell off until you were left with something shaped like a hammer.