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

submitted 4 months ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] 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.

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