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• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Aha, well it’s a very ambiguous phrasing that is used.

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    • kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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