Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

• lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Idk, it was horrendously insecure, would freeze a lot, and missing creature comforts like window tiling.

  It was secure enough for its time. That’s what people don’t realize, they look at the past through a modern lens. You gotta look at it from the time it was released. There’s a reason mainstream consumer-focused Windows editions dropped DOS and moved to the NT kernel. XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.

  If they kept refining Win7 it would’ve been great.

  They did, it was called “Windows 8” and Nobody liked it.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not looking at it through a modern lense. It was very insecure at the time, too. I worked in a PC repair shop and at the time that business was a money printer in terms of getting rid of endless malware.

    Although yes, the predecessors were worse.

    They did, it was called “Windows 8” and nobody liked it.

    I would not consider Win8 a “refinement” of Win7 lol, they changed the entire UX.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But before ME there was Windows 2000, with its particularly gorgeous spin of the classical design, and other than appearance - being kinda same as XP, but faster.

    XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.

    On NT you mean, and no, W2K was a consumer system.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.

      On NT you mean

      Whoops! Yes, NT.

      But before ME there was Windows 2000, with its particularly gorgeous spin of the classical design, and other than appearance - being kinda same as XP, but faster.

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      and no, W2K was a consumer system.

      W2K was most definitely not a consumer system. It was a bit of an oddball in that some power users installed it at home over 98/Me, but it was a business-oriented system first and foremost. XP had a lot of features over 2000, including a lot of consumer-oriented tools and applications.

      Personal anecdote: When I was in jr high, the “family PC” was a Toshiba laptop loaded with W2K, and compared to the W98 system we came from, it was certainly not built for “regular” users. That’s what Me was supposed to be, but we all know how that went…

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  • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But this article is talking about people running Windows 7 today, so comparing current actions through a modern lens is entirely valid

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• cuzit@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Technically, they did, and it was not great.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You consider Win8 a refinement of Win7?

    To me refinement means small changes to make something better. It doesn’t mean completely changing the entire UX.

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