Anyone else read PC magazines about Windows 95 on the school bus every day? In anticipation? Normal kid stuff… right?
That guy looks his parents were Tom Scott and Shayne Topp
Isn’t that Linus?
Lmao and I said “that guy”. I blame the low quality picture! XD
It is
maybe fun fact: they also had a anime girl for windows 7 in japan to promote its release
So your post title is “Here we go”(?)
What does the kanji say under Windows 7? Is it just kanji for “Windows 7?”
The last great Windows before Microsoft began its enshittification.
Windows 7 made me switch to Linux ! I skipped over Visa entirely by using some obscure XP 64bit version for years. Then, 7 came out, and I was like “WTF is this crap ?”. I was particularly infuriated by the complexity to setup network shares, you always had to navigate to some obscure menu to turn off some hidden “security” settings, but “media share” on he other hand, this shit was always ON even if nobody asked for it, or ever used it. Now I have to use Win11 at work. In retrospective, 7 wasn’t so bad…
i remember downgrading to windows 7 on my old laptop it orignally ran windows 7 as well in 2019 bcs windows 10 was slow for it
It was the last Windows version that felt it was primarily made for desktop use.
Windows 8 tried to be a hybrid between mobile operating system, and Windows 10 and onward feels more like an advertising platform for Office 365 and Microsoft’s AI services.
Was 10 actually alright early on in its life, or was I just unaware? I don’t remember any of the advertising and spyware crap back when I first upgraded from 7.
Yes. It installed candycrap automatically and had several other such apps in the start menu.
Oh yeah I do remember that one
AFAIK it has always been nagging about how much better things will be if you just connect your login to their Microsoft account.
I foolishly did that right away so I must have never seen the extra nagging
7 was the first and last version of Windows I didn’t immediately despise.
I would disagree. I feel xp was the last good windows. After that it all went to shit.
Funny you say that. I did tech support when XP first came out, and I quit my job and switched to Linux.
XP SP2 was actually pretty good though.
You mean Windows 2000?
You mean whatever one you first used and have an unhealthy nostalgia for. I mean Windows 98.
You mean 98SE
Give me Windows 95 with Microsoft Plus!
Nah, Windows 3.11 is peak
You say that until you think back and TCP/IP wasn’t a native protocol so you had to use and configure something like Trumpet Winsock for your SLIP or PPP connection. Dark days, man.
Man Microsoft plus was awesome. I used to stare at the foucault pendulum for hours when I was a kid.
3.11. So good you had to type WIN <ENTER> to fuck your PC.
The first version of Windows I used was 2.0. NT was a huge improvement over the DOS based ones, but things started to go downhill with XP.
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This is the right question, it was the last 100% NT kernel before 9x ruined everything.
