This can be said of the latest 2 decades of windows. Every version adds boths stupid warts and new tech, and could be good enough for the next 10 years. Window

This can be said of the latest 2 decades of windows. Every version adds boths stupid warts and new tech, and could be good enough for the next 10 years. Windows 2000: works, so let's start here Windows XP. Advances like stable DirectX and in SP3 reasonable internet safety. Stupidity like fisher price theme, DRM and FS virtualization. Administrator, meet System. Windows Vista. All new graphics driver architecture. But obsolete grandfathered in hardware and video driver instability. Trusted boot and further DRM integration. Windows 7. Let's call this a rebranded Vista Service pack. Drivers get a bit more mature, obsolete hardware is gone, and a few rough UI corners get polished. Windows 8. Nobody wants a tablet OS on a desktop, we get it anyway. Can't remember anything positive of this one, but there must be something. Windows 9 doesn't exist, Microsoft wands the number 10 like Apple. Windows 10. Microsoft actually shoved this on people's PC even if they didn't want it. Ads. Tracking that can't be disabled. But also cool propellerhead stuff like WSL. Notice the pattern: Every time some nice new tech;for the enthousiasts, but less and less control for the end user.