I think .net is pretty good. People love VS Code.
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Matty_r@programming.dev 2 weeks agoLet’s not pretend that Microslop is capable of producing good software.
bilb@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I don’t know about that, XP, 2000 and 7 was pretty solid.
ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Not gonna mention Windows 8? Hmm I wonder why…
socphoenix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or vista lol, or windows 98 that was so bad they essentially recalled it and re-released it as a second version?
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Everyone forgets MILENNIUM!
Because of the trauma.
pharceface@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
I used 98 as a teen, it came pre installed, what was wrong with it compared to 95? Asking out of curiosity.
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because it was shit.
I never claimed that everything MS did was good
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
XP was probably their most solid OS. And that shouldn’t be a brag.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reputation is such a strange phenomenon. XP was considered a disaster at launch. It took them years to repair everything that didn’t work.
The rollout of 64 bit architecture support was so sloppy that people were holding on to old hardware so as to not have to install the x64 version of XP. The premiere of the NT kernel meant that nothing had drivers, most software wasn’t compatible yet. DirectX 9 broke half of old games compatibility. There were also two entirely different versions of the shell with dramatically different start menus. Some versions didn’t support multi core CPUs.
It wasn’t until the end life of XP and the launch of Vista that people started to cling to XP and its reputation switched due to a mix of nostalgia and fear of the much worse launch of Vista.