
Where is XP and Vista on this chart. Millennium edition is missing but we don't count That one anyway.
They're all NaN and were discarded at outliers... Yeah, they're that bad compared to 2000.
If you could get *Windows ME to install without crashing.
get YOU to install what?
So... apparently Dragon Naturally Speaking (version 16!) has them all blown out of the water....

God that app was such trash. Voice recognition simply did not work in the 2000s yet everybody and their mother tried to push it upon us 20 years too soon, just like they're trying to do now with LLMs.
Remember when windows vista itself came with a voice to text assistant / keyboard thing?
I remeber trying to train that software for hours as a kid just for it to still not understand me half the time lol.
That was incredible. I had no idea it could be so easy.
I was thinking it was going to be this one:
Ironically, it was LLMs that made voice recognition work, but nobody is interested in pushing them anymore.
I don't know to me the level it worked, is what makes it really silly to me that so few things can handle local transcription today without cloud services. I felt like it was 99% accurate running on a crappy win XP system with like 256 MB ram. Seems to me that it's crazy that 20 years later we're "well we need to hook you up to a supercomputer to do that".
Blast from the past, I remember having this included with some game I bought in the 90s and it felt very Star Trek at the time.
I used to work with a pathologist who was so old and stuck in his ways that when the practice was shifting to Dragon, they allowed him to remain on the old transcriptionist service, even though it cost them more.
It is worth noting that the same metric is the exact reason that web browser version numbers are so ridiculous.
What's that saying? Something about the moment a metric is used to measure performance, it ceases to be a good metric.
That's what's happening here. In one of the stupidest ways possible.
Here's an episode of the excellent "99 percent Invisible" design podcast that interviews a philosopher who ho has written about this topic! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/
I listen to 100 percent invisible, thanks
Oh yeah, Firefox used to take years to change major version number, then they changed to... what was it now, a 6 week schedule? To keep up with Chrome's versions.
I hate their versioning schedule so damned much
It's gone to a 4 week cadence, now down to a 2-week cadence.
They are not ready for my Xbox 360
Meanwhile, Atari is off the scale
smirks in amiga500
My old Amstrad CPC6128 isn't too shabby either
Transylvania 6-5000 is in shambles.
Chrome bumped its versioning numbers to overtake Firefox back in the day, that’s how we ended up with stupid version numbers like 124.1.2 instead of meaningful versions.
I've started using CalVer (so a relase in October 2026 would be numbered 26.10). This is just so much better for end-user applications.
What's the benefits here? Why is the semver even bad to begin with? I'm not sure why I'd care that it's in the hundreds. It's a number, right?
Dates - I can just look at the release date if I want that.
The only correct system is 0ver.
I honestly love this idea unironically because its not really 1.0 until the bugs are gone and all desired features are present. If there are ever 2.0 plans, those are actually 1.0 plans and you were further behind than you thought
Important info: Sashi is supposedly a shitposter.
Has anyone checked on Bonzi Buddy lately, I think it's time to unfreeze him
Also, Clippy was special, but he wasn't evil.
This is a joke right? tell me it is please
This is also why I use AMD over NVIDIA.
I'm literally the oldest I've ever been in my entire life!
More people have been to Berlin than I have
Shit like this would be laughed at by my professors. What a bunch of goons
Windows 2000 has entered the chat
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