Re:Windows 11 review: An unnecessary replacement for Windows 10
by wtallis on Saturday October 02, 2021 @06:35PM
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The pattern here seems to be that the only way Microsoft can produce a Windows release that will be rated as "pretty decent" is by first subjecting their users to several years of a release that lowers the bar (or a subsequent release that makes an earlier one seem better in hindsight). 98 appears to have been the end of Microsoft's ability to ship consecutive major versions that were unambiguously an all-around improvement.
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Re:Windows 11 review: An unnecessary replacement for Windows 10
by hyperman1 on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:43AM
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Windows 2000 was an all around improvement. The UI of win95/98 with the kernel from NT. Now 20 years later we see places for decent improvements. It's just that microsoft either didn't do them,or added more antifeatures than features.
Re:Windows 11 review: An unnecessary replacement for Windows 10
by wtallis on Sunday October 03, 2021 @04:16AM
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Windows 2000 was definitely an all-around improvement over NT4, but it wasn't marketed as a successor to 98. That was Windows ME, which in hindsight was a bad idea. Microsoft should have abandoned the 9x line after 98 SE and put all their resources into making the NT line suitable as a replacement for the entire customer base. But for some reason they decided they couldn't pull that off in time for Windows 2000, and postponed the unification of the product lines until XP.