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> Windows isn't cool anymore; windows has never been cool; ubiquitous is the word you're probably thinking of.
by Toshio 14y ago
> Windows isn't cool anymore;
windows has never been cool; ubiquitous is the word you're probably thinking of.
- bornhuetter 14y agoIn the 90's, having a Windows gaming machine was cool.
- angstrom 14y agoEspecially considering consoles didn't have multiplayer beyond the living room. Having access to B.NET, Kali, MPlayer, and other gaming networks of the day was very cool.
- bornhuetter 14y agoI still think my dual boot Windows/Linux machine is cool, but I seem to be in a minority around here. Haters gonna hate.
- angstrom 14y agoBetween 95 and XP there was a period of "What's next?" similar to Apple in the 2007-2012 time frame and Google in the 2002-2007 time frame. What made them cool was the ability to change the way we work and play.
- rbanffy 14y agoI haven't praised Windows for a long time but even I have to admit Windows for Workgroups made small office networks useful, that Windows on 386 was a nice (not OS/2 nice, but nice still) way to multitask MS-DOS programs and that Windows NT was a very decent desktop OS if you had the hardware it required. My first multi-processor computer ran Windows and, at the time, I wouldn't be able to install Linux on it. Solaris would be an option, but it was expensive, difficult to install and required careful selection of compatible hardware. Of course, other OSs have surpassed it and Windows now looks like an evolutionary dead-end, crushed by layers of legacy compatibility and unable to evolve in significant new directions.