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For a regular home user, what does Win11 do that WinXP couldn't? Everything I can think of (drivers, screen res, multiple monitors) is incremental improvements
by ineptech 4y ago
For a regular home user, what does Win11 do that WinXP couldn't? Everything I can think of (drivers, screen res, multiple monitors) is incremental improvements to what we already had, I can't think of a feature they've introduced since XP than I want.
edit: This is probably too glib; certainly more recent Windowses are superior for application developers, which end users benefit from indirectly. It's the user-facing parts of the OS that seemed to have gone in the other direction.
- jodrellblank 4y ago> "Everything I can think of (drivers, screen res, multiple monitors) is incremental improvements to what we already had" All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? (Besides, they're just improvements on what we had before so they don't count). Apart from the drivers, screen res, multiple monitors, virtual desktops, Windows Defender, updated DirectX, newer hardware support, hypervisor isolated secure password store, app store, WiFi, audio stack with per-program volume control, OCR engine, voice recognition engine, Cortana, online backup and file and settings sync, touch UI and the $8Bn/year Surface line it enabled, improved security, hypervisor backed WSL Ubuntu and Android engines, Windows Sandbox, SSD TRIM support, Bitlocker full disk encryption, ClearType and improved fonts for screen reading, GPU accelerated compositor, face recognition biometric login, QR codes on BSODs, all of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#New_or_changed_features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#New_or_changed_f... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_11 ... what have Microsoft added or changed in Windows since XP? btw I don't even use windows and I didn't want any of those things anyway.
- ineptech 4y agoRight, the problem is the difference between the DirectX/hardware support stuff on that list and the Cortana/app store stuff - I want the first part, and will pay for it, but I'm complaining that getting stuck with the second part is part of the price.
- userbinator 4y agoOn the other hand, we have... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_XP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Wi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Wi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Wi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Wi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Wi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Wi...
- jodrellblank 4y agoThat isn't really "the other hand". The claim I was rejecting was "Microsoft haven't done any development on Windows since XP". I say they have, and you also say they have.