I challenge your claim that Windows 8 is/was the most hated version of Windows.
Let me remind you of the trainwreck that was Windows ME.
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Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think Windows 8 is the most hated version of Windows ever. Balmer jumped the gun on that one, trying to integrate UI design between Microsoft phones and desktop Windows. I guess many believe Windows 7 was the last really good version of Windows.
Personally I love these Windows upgrades, every single one of them. They are always good opportunities for Linux users to get good hardware dirt cheap.
As to why Microsoft wants you to upgrade IDK, maybe because it helps OEMs sell more machines, each with a paid Windows license?
Microsoft may also have upped the level of advertising and found more ways to monetize it.
Froyn@kbin.social 7 months ago
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Windows ME did not have forced upgrades, and was more like Vista.
ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
many believe Windows 7 was the last really good version of Windows
That’s not a belief. It’s a fact.
As to why Microsoft wants you to upgrade IDK, maybe because it helps OEMs sell more machines, each with a paid Windows license?
How does that connect to me being borderline tricked into accepting a free “upgrade” on my desktop PC, in my house, over the top of my existing Windows 10 install. They think I’m going to get “hooked” on the new Windows bells and whistles, and go begging my boss to upgrade our workstations, at the office?
Microsoft may also have upped the level of advertising and found more ways to monetize it.
I think this is the bingo. The new version has more and more ways to make money off of user data, selling you services, whatever.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How does that connect to me being borderline tricked into accepting a free “upgrade”
Maybe it fucks up your computer, especially if it’s an older one, so you give up on it, and buy a new one that just works.
ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
I doubt it. It’ll just be bloated and annoying, for no reason. Even on the new machines.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You must not have been around for Millenium Edition.
registeredusername@lemmy.world 7 months ago
WindowsME was really a bad and traumatic moment. He had a mental block ;)
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes I was, and that was bad, but people mostly hated it for being bloated. Windows 8 was a whole other level of hate. Millennium was more like Vista.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ME had only partial compatibility with DOS software despite being a DOS based OS, but it also did not support the newer NT kernel that XP was based on. It was very unstable, even worse than 98 was. It was even worse than XP prior to the 2004 Service Pack that fixed XP. It was so bad that it only existed for a single year.
The biggest problem people had with 8 was the Metro UI. And yeah, that thing was hideous. Prioritized touxhscreens over actual desktop productivity.
But 8 was functionally faster than 7. I’d even say that Vista users suffered more than 8 users.