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A comment on Ask HN: What are tech's largest moats?.

Re:Ask HN: What are tech's largest moats? by I_DRINK_KOOLAID on Thursday May 05, 2022 @06:44AM (#31271691)
Windows GUI you just can't attack it.

Billions of kids grew up with the start button as a gateway to their favorite game, and billions of adults sees it as the gateway to their productivity tool

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Re:Ask HN: What are tech's largest moats? by usrn on Thursday May 05, 2022 @12:24PM (#31275354)
Maybe it's because the last version of Windows I had installed was XP SP1 but I can't find things in the modern Windows start menu.
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Re:Ask HN: What are tech's largest moats? by I_DRINK_KOOLAID on Thursday May 05, 2022 @01:00PM (#31275838)
It's the reason why IIRC Server still has the old Start button which emerged in Windows 95 . Consumers version are plagued by the new menu but you can cure it with a free software called "classic start menu" or something like that.
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