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You mean when care was taken while coding and an OS could "run on 1GB but suffice with 2GB? I know everyone hated Win 8 but it was a welcomed change plus no bullshit on it at the time.
Real men remember when windows vista launched like shit because it assumed there were way more brand new high memory machines out there than there actually was
Vista is the reason I started using Linux.
Unix was the resson I started using Linux.
Can thank Intel for that, they pressured MS to lower the documented requirements so they could sell more low-end hardware.
Of course, MS executives also gladly went along with it, not like they're innocent in any way.
Also Nvidia and their drivers caused issues, as usual.
I wouldn't call Win 8 welcome, most people rather hated it. Then again, following Windows 7, which I the best of the bunch, couldn't have been easy. MS just bet that the future of Windows was tablets and the world replied "lol no".
Meanwhile the real future was smartphones and MS was like "lol no".
I remember having a conversation with an MS salesman whose job was to plug Windows Mobile 6.5 ... after the iPhone had come out. He had that sad quaver in his voice that people get when they know their task is futile.