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Or just have two Desktop Environments. One for the hoi polloi where the designers can go wild and the bean counters can push MSN "news", and one for Enterprise/
by LarryDarrell 3y ago
Or just have two Desktop Environments. One for the hoi polloi where the designers can go wild and the bean counters can push MSN "news", and one for Enterprise/Professionals that is more or less "Classic".
- bouke 3y agoLike the good old times with Windows ME and 2000!
- vetinari 3y agoNT4 and 2000. Please leave Windows ME behind closed doors, thank you.
- bouke 3y agoNo NT4 is of the same lineage as 2000. I was referring to the other lineage of Windows with ME being the last one. The unification that XP provided was good for stability, but the eventual result is this whole Windows 11 ordeal.
- vetinari 3y agoI meant the UI; NT4 and 2000 were the nice and clean ones, for enterprise and professionals; ME had already first signs of the cartoon world, that XP continued on. Looking back at the comment, yes, you are right. Both lines could share under the hood stuff, the NT/2000 line with clean UI and the ME line the colorized cartoon one. Or, they could split the line with Home and Pro, both of them they still have.
- wruza 3y agoOnly very rich corporations like FOSS community can simultaneously support two DEs (especially when one of them never changes too much). Microsoft has neither budget nor enough staff for that.
- pjmlp 3y agoSarcasm noted, however when looking at WinUI 3.0/WinAppSDK/... progress, one really wonders who's left.
- nirav72 3y ago> Enterprise/Professionals that is more or less "Classic". Yes - I’ve been wondering since win10 why Microsoft thinks the enterprise edition needs an xbox app preinstalled.