Re:Apps Getting Worse
by actually_a_dog on Sunday August 08, 2021 @08:48PM
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In terms of pure UI, I agree. There were a few peaks in Windows UI/UX: 3.0, 98, XP, and Windows 10. Since then, the trend has been toward more and more bloat. But, if the long-term trend continues, maybe Windows 15 will clean things up again. :)
Re:Apps Getting Worse
by antisthenes on Sunday August 08, 2021 @09:18PM
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Windows 10 is not a peak in any sense. It's a continuation of the downward trend that Windows 8 started.
It's the version of Windows that normalized ads in the OS, unreasonable amounts of telemetry and horrible flat UI.
Re:Apps Getting Worse
by actually_a_dog on Sunday August 08, 2021 @09:20PM
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Ugh. Maybe I was thinking of Vista? It’s been a while, after all....
Just casually skipping over the highest peak (Windows 7) I see...
The trend started with Windows 8 and continues to this day. And if someone brings up "improved security" as a benefit of more modern Windows systems, then they pretty much immediately concede the argument, because it's really not the job of the end-user machine to provide you with enterprise grade security.
Nor is it really true that older OSs simply aren't able to be made secure without releasing additional UI/UX changes alongside security patches.