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[–] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 41 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Microsoft could also be terrified of how shitty Windows 11 is. I have to think back to Millennium Edition to compare to something this disastrous, but Satya doesn't care about Windows, Surface, or XBox. Microsoft's future is M365, Azure, and D365. Big fat high margin Enterprise Agreements since everyone is locked into their proprietary shitty office formats. And they get enterprise problems with audit, identify, access control like few other businesses.

What I don't know understand is why companies refuse to sell off businesses that they know will die off from their neglect. A shame, except for Windows.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There is nothing to be terrified of for MS, windows can implement mandatory rectal scans to log in and linux wouldn't break 20% market share.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Linux is already over 15% in India

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

windows can implement mandatory rectal scans to log in

I for one would swap back to Windows from Liinux if this was implemented!

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Microsoft always follows the pattern of good OS, bad OS, good OS, bad OS. We just have to wait for Windows 12 for a good one.

[–] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

It's true:

3.0 - aka the Windows Protection Fault release 3.1/3.11/WFWG, now with far fewer WPFs 95 - I lost nearly a year of life waiting for it to reboot, again. 98! Second Edition TBF ME - Lets remove stuff and cause cause problems XP - SP2 - I can login before my PC is taken over by RPC calls from the Internet! Vista - UAC up the Longhorn ass 7 - took long enough 8 - 1.5 half complet OSes 10 - erased 1 OS, completed the other 11 - I am still waiting for file Explorer to open. Where is fileman.exe? It's so laggy, why does the context menu draw out one row at a time.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I liked it just fine. You have to admit it was good compared to 8.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I actually liked 8.1. 10 was fine until they started hiding all of the classic control panel settings and stuff behind their new ones and we got a total fustercluck of windows, buttons and options.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I'm absolutely amazed how they still don't seem to be able to rid themselves of the old control panel. The new settings menus still lack so many features. They've been around for almost 10 years now. What's going on there?

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

10 sucked ass. It's the reason I stayed on Windows 7 way longer than I should have.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I did the same, and when I switched I just switched to Linux rather than another Windows version.

Then again I've been playing with Linux (and using it professionally on the server side) since the 90s, so am not at all representative of most people out there.

Windows 98 was supported until almost a year after Windows XP's release, so nobody really had to use Millennium Edition. Windows 10's support is ending in October and no new version has been announced.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

A fresh install of ME was typically fine, the live update usually fucked things up big time.

I'd compare the Windows 11 disaster to Windows 8; only that they released 8.1 in relatively short succession, with most issues actively fixed.