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This is the Microsoft of the 1980s, 90s, and 2000s winning out over the 2010s shift to actually building good products. I don’t know what changed at the executi
by acdha 3y ago
This is the Microsoft of the 1980s, 90s, and 2000s winning out over the 2010s shift to actually building good products. I don’t know what changed at the executive level but it really looks like the old guard is back.
- userbinator 3y agoTo be honest, the "old Microsoft" made better products --- or at least wasn't as focused on invasive user-hostility as now. You can easily find the installation media for older versions of MS-DOS and Windows, as well as other MS products; and try them out in a VM to see what the experience back then was like. You can even do it in a browser now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38376731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38376731
- acdha 3y agoThey were more focused on preventing competition than mining user data, yes. I remember that era well but I will agree that they had better UI design and documentation, in no small part because you couldn’t just assume people would find a YouTube video explaining how to use something.
- pjmlp 3y agoDefinitely, GUI frameworks went down the drain after Windows 8.