Remember how the coyote runs past the end of the cliff, pauses in the air, and looks down? MS was very close to that situation. Otherwise you'd have to accept that Ballmer, the geniusest genius of all times, was "pushed" by the board to leave for no good reason. And you'd have to accept that the new people in charge at MS are foolish in their rush to undo the mistakes of Windows 8. Was the MS leadership wrong back then, or is it wrong now? It can't be "neither," but - for MS haters - it can be "both" :-)
I personally believe that Win7 was the best Windows OS ever. Win8 has a lot of good things under the hood, like very fast startup/shutdown times. However the ugly, counterproductive and inconsistent GUI (two control panels?) is killing the adoption rate. A marriage of the Win8 kernel and the Aero of Win7 would do wonders. Flat, pastel-colored, crude decorations of windows are easy to explain - MS wanted to reduce the GPU load, so that Windows can run on a tablet. But excuse me, this here PC is not lacking in the shaders department! Let the desktop be a desktop, and experiment with tablet GUI on tablets. Isn't that what everyone - except MS - does?
I run Win7 in Virtual Box for the one program I use for work that is only available under MS/.NET There is much that is available for free in the open source world. And if you don't like the way it works you can make it better.
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