Posted on 01/09/2019 7:21:16 AM PST by dayglored
Daughter works for MS on the Redmond campus. She’ll keep me posted...
I bet Microsoft management will lay off most of the people before the work is done on the remodel.
[[Microsoft rips it all up and starts again..................................................................................................no, not Windows]]
Dang it- ya build us up, then let us down- I was all excited for a nano-second- then read the last part :(
I agree. Win2k Pro was the best OS Microsoft ever made.
I agree that Win2K's user interface was the high-point -- ever since then, the first thing I have to do with XP or 7 is revert the UI to "Windows Classic" (i.e. Win2K) and tweak some things so it works more like Win2K. Classic Shell helps with 8 and 10 but they're mostly irredeemable.
The underlying OS (kernel, libraries, syscalls) has in fact improved substantially since Win2K. Win2K would be horribly insecure for daily internet usage.
A hybrid of Win2K UI over the Win7 OS foundation would be my goal.
(I almost said "Win2K UI over the Win10 OS foundation" because 10 is more secure than 7, but all the crap and alleged spyware makes me reject that.)
All of which is why I consider Win7 to be the "best OS Microsoft ever made", because I can, in fact, revert enough of the UI back to Win2K mode, to make it almost indistinguishable. Best of both worlds, IMO.
I very much disliked MacOS until OSX. Then I switched to Mac and haven’t looked back.
I like UNIX.
Thank you for a concise delineation of the problem.
I am sure you know of the bloat written on the bloat that is why we have gigabytes of unnecessary code that is Windows. Why Linux is the go to for those not caught in the cult. Always been a fan of this guy.
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
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