When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good? - eviltoast

Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn’t always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    XP was the response to Linux. Before that, windows was a crash fest, remember 98, or Millennium?

    Linux was rock stable, so microsoft had to do something and started yo use their server core in the home version of windows.

    They just realized trying to maintain NT and 9x core was foolish. Trying to put the hardware abstraction layer from Windows 2000 (NT 5) into 9x for Millennium Edition was AWFUL. So they scrapped the entire idea of a separate home core, 9x died, and Windows XP (NT 5.1) was born.

    But NT was already good. Windows 2000 SP4 was a fantastic OS for its time, as was XP.

    Gotta remember that the 9x core versions (95, 98, ME) were (in some ways) practically a separate OS masquerading as Windows.