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You´d think after Clippy and Windows 7, they´d take the clue and stop producing software that creates friction for users, instead of removing it?

allisdust 11mo ago
You mean Vista. Windows 7 was perfect. Till it was ruined by what shall not be named.
- adithyassekhar 11mo ago
  What ruined windows 7?
  - flohofwoe 11mo ago
    Windows 8. (yes, hardly anybody remembers that there was a Windows version between 7 and 10 - but it did exist, I'm not making it up, saw it with me own eyes on a coworker's PC once).
    - rpowers 11mo ago
      Is 8 where they leaned heavily into touch screen boxes?
      - LM358 11mo ago
        Yes. As if it wasn't out of touch enough, they even did it on the server version as well!
    - thewebguyd 11mo ago
      Considering Windows 7 (if you count ESM) was supported all the way up to 2020, it's no wonder people skipped 8 (start menu tiles aside). It was a weird release schedule, and it was split into two versions 8 and 8.1, with 8 only having like 3 years of main stream support, and no ESM and 10 released just two years after 8.1. If you count paying for ESM, someone could have gone from XP->7->11 and still been within support the whole time. Or from vista straight to 10. Fun fact: Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was supported all the way to 2008. I believe it was the longest supported version of Windows.
    - intrikate 11mo ago
      Nah, I still have my boxed Windows 8 Pro on my shelf. The key used to activate Windows 10, maybe even 11, but last I tried it didn't work anymore.
    - PyWoody 11mo ago
      I would even say there were two Window versions between 7 and 10, namely, 8 and 8.1.
- cyberax 11mo ago
  Not really. They started doing the "easy-to-use" alternative configuration panels in Vista. Windows Vista also started requiring driver signatures, making it impossible to write your own device drivers without going into the ugly test mode on every boot. Windows XP was the pinnacle, with everything working just as it should.
  - mcswell 11mo ago
    XP SP 2
- hansmayer 11mo ago
  I think I meant whatever came after WinXP which I recall was the last solid version. Either way, I sort of switched to Linux in those years and never looked back again...
- red-iron-pine 11mo ago
  > it was ruined by what shall not be named. what does lorraine williams have to do with this?
fodkodrasz 11mo ago
Both examples were great, beloved products.

allisdust 11mo ago

You mean Vista. Windows 7 was perfect. Till it was ruined by what shall not be named.

adithyassekhar 11mo ago
What ruined windows 7?
- flohofwoe 11mo ago
  Windows 8. (yes, hardly anybody remembers that there was a Windows version between 7 and 10 - but it did exist, I'm not making it up, saw it with me own eyes on a coworker's PC once).
  - rpowers 11mo ago
    Is 8 where they leaned heavily into touch screen boxes?
    - LM358 11mo ago
      Yes. As if it wasn't out of touch enough, they even did it on the server version as well!
  - thewebguyd 11mo ago
    Considering Windows 7 (if you count ESM) was supported all the way up to 2020, it's no wonder people skipped 8 (start menu tiles aside). It was a weird release schedule, and it was split into two versions 8 and 8.1, with 8 only having like 3 years of main stream support, and no ESM and 10 released just two years after 8.1. If you count paying for ESM, someone could have gone from XP->7->11 and still been within support the whole time. Or from vista straight to 10. Fun fact: Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was supported all the way to 2008. I believe it was the longest supported version of Windows.
  - intrikate 11mo ago
    Nah, I still have my boxed Windows 8 Pro on my shelf. The key used to activate Windows 10, maybe even 11, but last I tried it didn't work anymore.
  - PyWoody 11mo ago
    I would even say there were two Window versions between 7 and 10, namely, 8 and 8.1.
cyberax 11mo ago
Not really. They started doing the "easy-to-use" alternative configuration panels in Vista. Windows Vista also started requiring driver signatures, making it impossible to write your own device drivers without going into the ugly test mode on every boot. Windows XP was the pinnacle, with everything working just as it should.
- mcswell 11mo ago
  XP SP 2
hansmayer 11mo ago
I think I meant whatever came after WinXP which I recall was the last solid version. Either way, I sort of switched to Linux in those years and never looked back again...
red-iron-pine 11mo ago
> it was ruined by what shall not be named. what does lorraine williams have to do with this?

fodkodrasz 11mo ago

Both examples were great, beloved products.