• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      They do this every 4-5 years. Nobody is ever bothered enough to cause a problem for Microsoft’s bottom line.

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        7 months ago

        I don’t remember anyone being excited for a version of Windows since 7. 8 and 8.1 were universally hated, a lot of people clung to 7 until they absolutely had to upgrade to 10, and now they’re clinging to 10 as long as they can. I seriously doubt there’s an upcoming release of Windows people will genuinely like and want, because there’s no money in doing that.

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          7 months ago

          Yeah, but even before that…people were only excited about 7 because of how much of a dumpster fire Vista was. And prior to XP (which Vista replaced), most people didn’t care about OS versions at all.

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          7 months ago

          Yeah, it definitely has the Star Trek movie curse.

          Each only in comparison to its predecessor, though. I still think Windows 7 was the last version to get out of its users’ way and just let them use their computer; everything since then has been worse than 7 in some subtle way.