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It's interesting though that no one pined for Vista or 8.

by cptskippy 8y ago

ConceptJunkie 8y ago
I actually won a copy of Vista Ultimate from an online contest. I never had a reason to install it.
- lozaning 8y ago
  Microsoft sent me like $300 dollars worth of paper plates, cups, utensils, and gave me pizza vouchers and a bunch of free licenses because I signed up to host a Windows Vista launch party. No one came, and I have yet to ever install Vista on a machine either. The pizza was good though and my roommates and I used the plates for weeks.
  - rubatuga 8y ago
    That’s hilarious, wish I was invited to one!
21 8y ago
7 looks like Vista. 10 looks like 8. There are a lot of 10/7 fans around, thus they pin for the Vista/8 look. First you complain loudly "what is this shit". Then when the new one comes which is basically the same as the previous, but a bit more polished you say "I love this, you should always skip one Windows version"
- SECProto 8y ago
  I dispute this. Vista focused heavily (on launch) on the sidebar and transparency (golly gee!). 7 and XP look very similar out-of-the-box. Honestly, I like 10 mostly. If they finished converting the settings menus to the new style, it'll feel a bit more complete. But that will also likely hide many of the useful (for "enthusiasts") settings. And if you could control updates, so it doesn't use huge amounts of memory/storage when booting when the machine has been off a week or two. Avoiding tracking would be nice too ... But I don't know much about that. Edit: my views of 10 are likely shaped by the fact that I use 1607 LTSB, which doesn't have a lot of the new windows 10 crap (app store, etc)
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dunnevens 8y ago
I'm starting to see 8 nostalgia. Very few these days will defend the start screen, but some people are starting to miss the rest of the OS. Which is understandable. It was the last version of Windows without many of the things some consider objectionable about 10: no telemetry, no forced updates, no big feature updates which might break things, etc.

It's interesting though that no one pined for Vista or 8.

ConceptJunkie 8y ago

I actually won a copy of Vista Ultimate from an online contest. I never had a reason to install it.

lozaning 8y ago
Microsoft sent me like $300 dollars worth of paper plates, cups, utensils, and gave me pizza vouchers and a bunch of free licenses because I signed up to host a Windows Vista launch party. No one came, and I have yet to ever install Vista on a machine either. The pizza was good though and my roommates and I used the plates for weeks.
- rubatuga 8y ago
  That’s hilarious, wish I was invited to one!

21 8y ago

7 looks like Vista. 10 looks like 8. There are a lot of 10/7 fans around, thus they pin for the Vista/8 look. First you complain loudly "what is this shit". Then when the new one comes which is basically the same as the previous, but a bit more polished you say "I love this, you should always skip one Windows version"

SECProto 8y ago
I dispute this. Vista focused heavily (on launch) on the sidebar and transparency (golly gee!). 7 and XP look very similar out-of-the-box. Honestly, I like 10 mostly. If they finished converting the settings menus to the new style, it'll feel a bit more complete. But that will also likely hide many of the useful (for "enthusiasts") settings. And if you could control updates, so it doesn't use huge amounts of memory/storage when booting when the machine has been off a week or two. Avoiding tracking would be nice too ... But I don't know much about that. Edit: my views of 10 are likely shaped by the fact that I use 1607 LTSB, which doesn't have a lot of the new windows 10 crap (app store, etc)
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dunnevens 8y ago

I'm starting to see 8 nostalgia. Very few these days will defend the start screen, but some people are starting to miss the rest of the OS. Which is understandable. It was the last version of Windows without many of the things some consider objectionable about 10: no telemetry, no forced updates, no big feature updates which might break things, etc.