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When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn't always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I'd say Windows 8.1 was the last "good" one (as in B tier good), and Windows 7 was the last great one. Everything went downhill from here.

And yes, I'm considering Vista as part of the good ones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Truth be told, Vista wasn't bad, it needed a bit of polish here and there but most importantly, you needed a good PC to run it smoothly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And it was riddled with issues due to lack of 64bit driver support. You could have released 7 instead of vista and ended up with some of the same issues.

I've long thought it was fine and subjected to misplaced ridicule.

Windows ME, however....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Win98 was so bad they released Win98SE.

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