▲ 325 ▼ When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good? (lemmy.blahaj.zone) submitted 2 years ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 181 comments fedilink hide all child comments Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn't always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?
[–] Resol@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'd say Windows 8.1 was the last "good" one (as in B tier good), and Windows 7 was the last great one. Everything went downhill from here. And yes, I'm considering Vista as part of the good ones. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 5 points 2 years ago (3 children) Truth be told, Vista wasn't bad, it needed a bit of polish here and there but most importantly, you needed a good PC to run it smoothly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) And it was riddled with issues due to lack of 64bit driver support. You could have released 7 instead of vista and ended up with some of the same issues. I've long thought it was fine and subjected to misplaced ridicule. Windows ME, however.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago Win98 was so bad they released Win98SE. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago And I was one of the very few who were lucky enough to have one. And it lasted me like, 11 years. permalink fedilink source parent [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago It had the annoying habit of asking "Are you sure you want to run this?" too often; and early cheaper consumer-grade PCs that were really just moderately nice XP machines that could on paper even boot and run Vista that in reality were slow and had poor driver support. I had a Vista machine that was fairly powerful for the day and had decent driver support, like Gateway put some give a shit into it, and it was pretty okay. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 5 points 2 years ago (3 children) Truth be told, Vista wasn't bad, it needed a bit of polish here and there but most importantly, you needed a good PC to run it smoothly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) And it was riddled with issues due to lack of 64bit driver support. You could have released 7 instead of vista and ended up with some of the same issues. I've long thought it was fine and subjected to misplaced ridicule. Windows ME, however.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago Win98 was so bad they released Win98SE. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago And I was one of the very few who were lucky enough to have one. And it lasted me like, 11 years. permalink fedilink source parent [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago It had the annoying habit of asking "Are you sure you want to run this?" too often; and early cheaper consumer-grade PCs that were really just moderately nice XP machines that could on paper even boot and run Vista that in reality were slow and had poor driver support. I had a Vista machine that was fairly powerful for the day and had decent driver support, like Gateway put some give a shit into it, and it was pretty okay. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) And it was riddled with issues due to lack of 64bit driver support. You could have released 7 instead of vista and ended up with some of the same issues. I've long thought it was fine and subjected to misplaced ridicule. Windows ME, however.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago Win98 was so bad they released Win98SE. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago Win98 was so bad they released Win98SE. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago And I was one of the very few who were lucky enough to have one. And it lasted me like, 11 years. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago It had the annoying habit of asking "Are you sure you want to run this?" too often; and early cheaper consumer-grade PCs that were really just moderately nice XP machines that could on paper even boot and run Vista that in reality were slow and had poor driver support. I had a Vista machine that was fairly powerful for the day and had decent driver support, like Gateway put some give a shit into it, and it was pretty okay. permalink fedilink source parent