“So, does Windows suck,” he asks rhetorically. “Only when it forgets who it’s working for…”
I’d argue that it remembers it very well at all times. MS indicated very clearly that its target audience are non-technical, preferably business users that they can mine for data. Windows fully reflects that, fixing what this dude is talking about is making the product worse
Even if they wanted to pivot, selling a standalone twice a decade is just not going to cut it anymore, you won’t get trillions of dollar in valuations like that.
That’s what Windows will be forever until they find a more fucked up way yo extract money out of people.
20cello@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Now”
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
2000 was awesome, XP was great, 7 was fantastic, 8 was a good core with a terrible UI, 10 continued the decline, 11 accelerated it.
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I can’t help but notice your skipped two very terrible versions in that list:
ME
Vista shudders
Un4tural@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dug out my old win xp eee pc, thing does Windows things faster than my new top spec Dell precision with an ssd… And it’s using 200mb ram with spinning rust from what will be near decade and a half old… The plastic is cracking away from age.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
7 was all the average user could ever want. Snappy operations, simple and easy to navigate settings, light memory overhead, and a really nice aesthetic. Too bad we couldn’t just update the backend stuff indefinitely so now we have a bloated, AI fueled privacy nightmare with a shitty bottom middle start menu with Windows 11.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
7 was peak imo.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’d argue 8 was the best windows we’ve had, ever. The UI was awkward.
8.1 however was IMO was damn near perfection. This is of course from my standpoint of “it just boots windows to then run steam” since I don’t use windows for anything but that.