“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022)

Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by Dalewyn on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:27PM (#35447653)

>11 is trash.

11 has all the same problems 10 has, but brings many significant improvements both in the backend and frontend. Hardly trash.

>never has a new Windows version been made available where people didn't initially hate them at first

Windows 95 and 98 were both received to applause and fanfare, 95's stellar reception in particular is probably still unmatched to this day.

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by snozolli on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:23PM (#35448506)

95's stellar reception in particular is probably still unmatched to this day.

The only shift in user experience that I can equate it to is maybe the jump from candy bar and flip phones to the iPhone and Android. In addition to the UI, it brought real multitasking to a consumer OS.

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by rkagerer on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:17AM (#35450492)

Windows 11 cranked up the [user-unwanted] telemetry, mandated TPM 2.0, and eliminated hardware support for certain CPU's for no other reason than 'because security' (overridable with a registry hack at least for the moment).

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