Posted on 07/02/2021 1:34:45 PM PDT by upchuck
There’s a joke that Microsoft follows a good, bad pattern with its OS launches: Windows XP: good, Windows Vista: bad, Windows 7: good. Windows 8: bad, Windows 10: good. Alas, in keeping with the cycle, Microsoft is botching the Windows 11 launch, and it might wreck an otherwise good OS.
Thanks to a leaked build, a launch event, and a newly released Windows Insider preview, we have a good idea of what Windows 11 will look like now. And for the most part, it looks like Windows 10 with a fresh coat of paint. Windows 11 dumps live tiles, moves the taskbar to a centered view, and handles multi-monitor setups better. But very little exists in Windows 11 that doesn’t exist in Windows 10 in some form. Windows 11 takes what’s good about Windows 10 and improves on it, which is a good thing.
That’s why it’s confusing to see Microsoft completely bungle what should otherwise be the easy part—the launch of the operating system. Don’t get me wrong, the actual launch (as in getting the OS prepared for release) is a difficult process. But we’re talking about the PR launch: telling the world about the OS and what to expect.
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10 ain’t no prize ether IMHO!
TRS DOS was better than 10
I'm with you! Win 7 forever. It just works.
I miss DOS. I could move/share data between Lotus and dBase III plus which I taught myself to program in, display it in Harvard Graphics and plug it into Word documents. People thought I was smart :) Now a Chimp can do all of that.
Harvard Graphics, and Multimate.
The Boobie prize.
My dad has the OEM W7 and it’s on all our computers.
Thanks to CedarDave for the ping!
You know how it goes....every other Widows version....
Is it “de-googled”?
You beat me to it! I never thought of W10 as a good release. I’m still very biased toward W7, that’s why I have a tri-boot system with W7, W10 and Linux, and the only reason why I got W10 is because it’s supposedly more secure than W7.
HAHAHA!!!
Ah yes, a DOS man! I did the same thing. 3.3 was great, 4.0 crap, but I waited until DOS 6 came out to make the move upward.
After Win-7 Pro x64, ALL Windows OSs have been crap.
+1.
XP was the last M$ OS that sold itself. Everything since then the consumer has had to be extorted or strongarmed into switching to (in no small part because they keep making drastic changes in the user interface, so with each new version you have to learn how to use Windows all over again).
If you want a version of Win10 with all of the M$ bloatware, crapware & spyware removed (which also inadvertently disables authentication verification), look into Windows 10 Ameliorated (Win10 AME).
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