They've already lost the conversation though. There were Windows products people were genuinely excited for. 95 being the obvious one, but WinXP did really de

They've already lost the conversation though. There were Windows products people were genuinely excited for. 95 being the obvious one, but WinXP did really deliver the promise of modern, NT-based windows for the home desktop, and Win7 felt like we finally broke free of the stagnation of XP (worsened by the bad press Vista got). I willingly went out and acquired a legit copy of Windows Vista (at the time, the pre-pre-predecessor to Bing Rewards let you grind some crummy games for a few weekends to earn enough tokens for a copy) but even being told Win11 is free and will be delivered directly to my desktop, I just go in and slide the TPM option to "off" in the BIOS to make sure it doesn't prompt it.