• magic_lobster_party
      link
      fedilink
      285 hours ago

      It was the last Windows version that felt it was primarily made for desktop use.

      Windows 8 tried to be a hybrid between mobile operating system, and Windows 10 and onward feels more like an advertising platform for Office 365 and Microsoft’s AI services.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        33 hours ago

        Was 10 actually alright early on in its life, or was I just unaware? I don’t remember any of the advertising and spyware crap back when I first upgraded from 7.

      • @friend_of_satan
        link
        English
        64 hours ago

        Funny you say that. I did tech support when XP first came out, and I quit my job and switched to Linux.

        XP SP2 was actually pretty good though.

        • @GeneralEmergency
          link
          206 hours ago

          You mean whatever one you first used and have an unhealthy nostalgia for. I mean Windows 98.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              33 hours ago

              Man Microsoft plus was awesome. I used to stare at the foucault pendulum for hours when I was a kid.

            • @Blinchik
              link
              English
              66 hours ago

              Nah, Windows 3.11 is peak

              • partial_accumen
                link
                65 hours ago

                You say that until you think back and TCP/IP wasn’t a native protocol so you had to use and configure something like Trumpet Winsock for your SLIP or PPP connection. Dark days, man.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            45 hours ago

            The first version of Windows I used was 2.0. NT was a huge improvement over the DOS based ones, but things started to go downhill with XP.