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Evolution of Windows
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The box that is labeled XP should be labeled 2000.
when any new fact is learned, the learning entity has “discovered” it. Europeans thought they were going to India, and discovered that there was something else there. They also discovered there were people there, and never pretended that there weren’t.
You have to twist the common meaning of the word to make it mean “intentionally erasing existing inhabitents.
I thought 10 was a decent OS once debloated, used it for a while.
Back to Linux now though.
Other than it rebloating itself
I miss windows millennium, which would be a hammer made of a turd.
The plain old basic hammer probably should have been Windows 2000, and then a big playskool plastic stuff slapped on for XP, but ultimately pretty much exactly the same.
At least you can despyware 10...
Why should you need to? That's my beef with it. It means they don't respect you enough to give you something good in the first place and hope 99% won't bother.
You forgot windows me.
I know it would throw off the whole 9 square thing but if you (or the person that created this) decide to add it then might I recommend a hammer smashing itself into pieces?
Isn’t that what the entire thing is balanced precariously on top of? So it’s not absent from the meme, it’s lurking in the background, ever-present.
Windows actually migrated to the NT kernel when XP launched - AFAIK, ME was a dead end.
I'll take both of your words for it since the only I know about windows me is that it fucking crashed catastrophically all the fucking time.
And windows 95.
Oh shit.
I didn't even notice.
First I forgot about Dre and now I forgot about windows 95. Smh my head.
Was there any big difference between 95, 98, SE and ME, though? IIRC they were just the yearly rebrandings of Microsoft, there was no major difference between 95 and ME I can recall.
I use arch BTW. But I liked XP and 7.
Windows 98 still had DOS built in right? I kind of have an itch to install it in a vm or something.
yeah both windows 95 and 98 were just built on top of dos
Yea, I can never forget this logo
Flashbacks
And Windows ME, though they made odd efforts to try to hide this shameful fact.
Nope, they were DOS with a graphical shell on top.
I think Win10 started like that, but with time parts fell off until you were left with something shaped like a hammer.
Eh, I’d consider sliding the window a little differently. Command prompt only OS’s like DOS or maybe even BASIC as the “rock.” Windows was more like a Model T car. Make W11 a Pinto or something.
They know we liked Win7. They'll never go back, they'll just keep making it worse for us and more profitable for them.
That's why I switched to Linux Mint a year ago. I feel sorry for people who can't switch for whatever reason.
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It's really incredible how Microsoft is trying to drive people away, by:
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Polluting what works.
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Never actually finishing revamps in progress.
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Pushing so much crap even normal users are conditioned to click Microsoft 'features' away as spam.
They don't have to do anything! They could just freeze Windows 11 and gut development beyond security/api/hardware fixes, and rake in business "stuck on win32" dollars for eternity. But no, they are trying their absolute best to push folks to Android/iOS and open a window for stuff like the steam deck.
I bet we aren't far from OEMs even getting sick of it, as shipping (admittedly, trashy self made) linux distros.
They aren't trying to drive people away, they just have learned there's nothing they can do that will substantially scare people away. So time to pivot to trying to milk that captive userbase for all they are worth. People who are leaving are leaving for mobile class devices and they learned in Windows 8/Windows Phone 7 that they have no idea how to tap into that market segment anyway.
Yes, 'enthusiasts' are going Linux but they are a rounding error, hardly worth trying to capture compared to the revenue capture from the rest of the market. Particularly since the enthusiast market tends to be a bigger pain in terms of being picky users who complain and simultaneously unlikely to just say 'yes I'd like that service you just popped up in the notifications for only $5/month'.
Yes, ‘enthusiasts’ are going Linux but they are a rounding error, hardly worth trying to capture compared to the revenue capture from the rest of the market.
Agreed, it's a rounding error.
But it won't be if OEMs get fed up and start shipping it as an option, like Valve is already doing.
Microsoft has already done some questionably 'OEM hostile' things like pushing the Surface line, shutting out some OEM bloatware in favor of thier own, pollute performance-sensitive devices like handhelds, and such, and it seems MS isn't slowing down.
Yup, most people would just use Mint if it came on their laptop and not really think about it.
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