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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by krylon on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:01AM (#27514709)
To be fair, some major changes are not directly user-visible. For example, Microsoft created a new programming language (called "P") to rewrite the USB stack in Windows 8 or 8.1 that allegedly made that part more secure/reliable.

EDIT: I suppose there is a certain pressure to mess with the UI, so non-technical people will "see" the difference. Some changes have been genuine improvements, IMHO, like AeroSnap or the search field in the start menu, others have been disastrous (cough Windows 8 cough).

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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by tasogare on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:23AM (#27515056)
> the search field in the start menu

That's one of the worst offender. It opens a separate windows instead of searching in the menu itself, and returns a lot of crap (including web queries, wtf) except what it supposed to do: searching in installed applications. That can be done, at the expense of an additional click. Very poor UX by mixing concerns that belongs to different applications (Explorer and the browser).

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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by krylon on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:11AM (#27515778)
As far as I recall, it did not do that in Windows 7. I have not used Windows 10 that much.
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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by dmitriid on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:47AM (#27517178)
> P") to rewrite the USB stack in Windows 8 or 8.1 that allegedly made that part more secure/reliable.

I wonder if that's why even on a gaming desktop USBs default to "turn off power to preserve battery" which made my keyboard stutter, and I had to turn off this setting from Device Manager.

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