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kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Windows 8 was where Microsoft went all-in on optimizing Windows to run on low-power tablets to compete with the iPad. It’s mostly remembered for the terrible tablet-first full-screen “start menu”, but also continued the work to trim away all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7 (where the motivation was to make it work on netbooks so they could finally stop shipping XP)

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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7

The fuck?? Vista predates Win7, that sentence makes no sense

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- Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Windows 7 was based on Vista, and started the job of trimming away Vista’s bloat, which 8 continued.
  
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  - ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Aha, well it’s a very ambiguous phrasing that is used.
    
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    kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Ambiguous, yes; very ambiguous, though, sounds like you’re preemptively dodging any blame for misreading :P
    
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- Robaque@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  the work to trim all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7
  
  Could be phrased better but it makes sense to me
  
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- cardfire@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You’re getting downdooted, but I was stuck on rereading that nonsensical sentence, as well, and I’m glad it was clarified.
  
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