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Re:The largest Git repo by colechristensen on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:21PM (#14413133)
You have to balance getting work done vs. purity, and Microsoft has spent years trying to fix a bad balance.

Windows ME/Vista/8 were terrible and widely hated pieces of software because of "getting things done" instead of making good decisions. They made billions of dollars doing it, don't get me wrong, but they've also lost a lot of market share too and have been piling on bad sentiment for years. They've been pivoting and it has nothing to do with "getting work done" but by going back and making better decisions.

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Re:The largest Git repo by contextfree on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @07:37PM (#14414292)
Those releases (well, Vista and 8 anyway, I don't know about ME) came out of a long and slow planning process - if they made bad decisions I don't think it was about not taking long enough to make them.
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Re:The largest Git repo by ern on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:23PM (#14413931)
I assumed that Windows 8 was hated because it broke the Start Menu and tried to force users onto Metro.
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Re:The largest Git repo by sjwright on Thursday May 25, 2017 @05:06AM (#14416148)
It also broke a lot of working user interfaces, e.g. wireless connection management.
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