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Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hell, i refuse to move off win7. And given the eavesdropping behaviour of my laptop even after a deshittification scrub, that's not gonna change any time soon.

[–] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows 7 is where Microsoft peaked imo.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

98/XP/7 was a glorious time. Then they decided way too late that they wanted to be tabletgardenwalledadmachines.

Not on fucking hardware i built you don't.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While windows 95, windows Me… and windows 11…

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

95 was fuckin' revolutionary back in the day. Quickly became old man yelling at cloud tho.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it was but it was not quite finished that’s why 98 came out so quickly (for the time)

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think you're mixed up a bit. 98 was the unfinished beast, that's why 98SE

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I Beta tested 98 and was shocked that they cut the gold release when they did, they were still fixing showstoppers pretty regularly at that point during development.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remembering loving Windows 2000. Where's the love for 2000? It's probably because that's when I started really getting into things, and by that I mean looking at porn (12-13 years old), and so I needed to figure out how to unfuck my parents computer many, many times.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

2k was a server build primarily, so to put it on a desktop you were already talking to people who knew what the fuck they were doing. It was pretty damned solid. I also have a fondness for 2k8.

2k12 just pisses me off because it's win10 in a stupid hat making server noises. Get that shit out of a production environment

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vista, you forgot vista...

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

We don’t talk about Vista no no no no we don’t talk about Vistaaaaa.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is 7 still getting security patches?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

officially no, even ESU ended jan 2023, but you can get around the MSE ones by a manual install. I've also found they allow for extraordinary ones like CVE-2023-29336