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Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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1725 points taubek | 1 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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oliwarner ◴[27 Mar 23 07:25 UTC] No.35323842[source]▶
I left Windows in a hail of Vista bugs, over a decade ago. I've seen it get worse and worse in that time, both in UX rot and anti-consumer "features".

I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with.

Not here to eulogize over what I moved to, but I think it's important people consider why they're still using Windows. It's not your friend.

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SergeAx ◴[27 Mar 23 13:55 UTC] No.35326712[source]▶
There's a rule for Windows versions: you should skip every second one. So the right sequence is:

install Windows 95

skip Windows 98

install Windows 2000

skip Windows ME

install Windows XP

skip Windows Vista

install Windows 7

skip Windows 8

install Windows 10

skip Windows 11

This is so consistent that I beleive there are two teams inside MS alternately developing next version.

They say, though, that Windows 11 is the last version and there will be only updates since. I really hope this is not the case.

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dagw ◴[27 Mar 23 14:01 UTC] No.35326771[source]▶
They say, though, that Windows 11 is the last version and there will be only updates since. I really hope this is not the case.

It was actually Windows 10 they said that about, so...

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1. genewitch ◴[27 Mar 23 18:17 UTC] No.35330208[source]▶
right, because apple said Mac OS X (1998 or so) was the last version they were going to release.

from new era Macs it went 7, 8, 9, X. Then intel macs, still macos X.

I do know they're up to version 16 or something of whatever the OS is called these days. probably just MacOS.

I didn't believe either of them!