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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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[-] morphballganon@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago

Windows 7 exists, and there's no need to improve upon perfection. But there's no money in releasing nothing, so they release ad-filled "upgrades" to bring in more money from the doofuses who buy it.

[-] Delta_V@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Yeah, every UI change since 7 has been for the worse, increasing the number of steps required to get work done.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

I heard someone refer to what happened from XP to 10 as "onioneering" because they just added layers.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

TIL Windows is an ogre...

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

To be fair, 10's Settings screen makes dealing with wifi and bluetooth much easier than 7

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah but they had to do that because bluetooth became much more commonplace between 7 and 10.

Although I'm not sure if it was like that out of the box or it was improved with an update.

[-] Delta_V@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I wasn't using bluetooth with 7, so you could be right. But if I need to fiddle with wifi beyond just changing what AP I'm connected to, the network settings I typically want to look at, eg disabling adapters or manually setting an IP address, were available in fewer steps in 7 versus 10.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

This is something Apple got right. OS X 10.0 was good and they’ve made lots of incremental changes but didn’t just arbitrarily change the whole “centered application dock at the bottom and menu bar at the top” situation. When new form factors emerged, they just made a new interface and didn’t try to hot glue a mouse/touchpad OS and touchscreen OS together for the fuck of it.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

How bad is security if you still have Windows 7 installed today?

Looks like 3% of windows users worldwide could help answer that question. Well, up to 3%… guessing not too many of them are too savvy.

[-] Remorhaz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that those machines are corporate owned and running legacy systems that are hanging on by a thread.

Every year someone talks about replacing Ol’ Smoky but the new system would need to go through validation and that costs time and money so they limp along for another year

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I try to not connect mine to the internet anymore

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

I would have been happy to pay for continued improvements to DirectX and Vulcan and increasing security and minor useful incremental changes over time keeping the same Windows 7 playbook running. I wish I lived in the timeline where our greatest complaint with Windows is that it hasn't changed very much in the last 15 years.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Vista* but otherwise yes

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