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There's thousands of video games that are still around and are not 'good'. Win XP was used for years (decade?) and the question of it's goodness was up for deba
by friendlybus 7y ago
There's thousands of video games that are still around and are not 'good'. Win XP was used for years (decade?) and the question of it's goodness was up for debate for a long time. Something that's older will have more security issues. You can say WinXP did a lot of good things for it's time (sane networking, ect), but it's ability to fulfill the role 'good enough' waned pretty quickly.
Vim/emacs/notepad++ are all good enough text editors, there's not much call for machine learning ai on text editing, what new conceptual application is there for text editing tech? Excel has been the same for ten years because it fills a finite hole. There are other products that age quickly spill over to categories of programming that can always benefit from the infinity of detail or quality and don't fill a fixed finite hole. e.g. video games.
Yeah computers as a rising force of workhorse power is only now restarting. We had a period of stagnation for a while.
- akho 7y agoExcel has been the same for which ten years?
- friendlybus 7y agoThe basic tech behind it. The ui has changed a lot. There was an article a year or so ago saying the engineering team doesn't get a lot of big meaty change to do and new rotating managers push ui changes. A few details of that might be off, but the grid of cells has stayed.
- akho 7y agoLast 10 years saw the introduction and great progress in PowerQuery and PowerPivot. Those two make Excel a very different, more versatile, tool. I’m not sure what “basic tech” is, or which UI changes you refer to (I think it’s pretty much unchanged since 2007, with minor styling updates). 97 till 2007 was sad.