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No no, you're completely right. Fixing my complains about Windows comes at a horrific cost. Microsoft can continue down the current path and Windows will still
by mrweasel 6y ago
No no, you're completely right. Fixing my complains about Windows comes at a horrific cost.
Microsoft can continue down the current path and Windows will still be hugely successful and widely used. It's will just be terrible and continue to get worse. Most people and businesses will just live with it. I mean if Windows is just the thing that launches Steam, then you don't really care. If it's just the shit SAP/Excel/what-ever launcher your IT department forces you to use, then fine. Windows just won't be a smooth experience or something people enjoy using.
- toast0 6y agoThe problem is right now the biggest thing going for Windows is the historic baggage. If Microsoft makes be choose between baggage and something new and possibly better, I'm also going to consider other options. In that case, Microsoft had better offer something amazing, that's worth the cost of removing history. They've done it from time to time. The benefits of NT outweighed the loss of tools that required the windows 9x models; although not enough for many to switch to 2000; XP made some concessions to seal the deal. The benefits of 64-bit windows are generally worth the loss of 16-bit applications (although winevdm shows that they could have made that work). But, I haven't seen much from Microsoft lately that leads me to think they'd be able to pull something like that off. If I had to make a choice, I'd probably go to something else that feels like it respects users.