fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoStill booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computerswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down16
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minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 month agoIdk, it was horrendously insecure, would freeze a lot, and missing creature comforts like window tiling. Tbh I think you’re letting nostalgia blind you to XP’s flaws a little. If they kept refining Win7 it would’ve been great.
minus-squarecuzit@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoTechnically, they did, and it was not great.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYou consider Win8 a refinement of Win7? To me refinement means small changes to make something better. It doesn’t mean completely changing the entire UX.
Idk, it was horrendously insecure, would freeze a lot, and missing creature comforts like window tiling.
Tbh I think you’re letting nostalgia blind you to XP’s flaws a little.
If they kept refining Win7 it would’ve been great.
Technically, they did, and it was not great.
You consider Win8 a refinement of Win7?
To me refinement means small changes to make something better. It doesn’t mean completely changing the entire UX.