![]() But that's not really what I'm getting at. I've also been a critic of how, if you know where to look, you can still find remnants of the old NT 3.1-3.51 UI in Windows 11. The "Vista Ready" program was a serious unforced error, as was trying to force a mobile oriented UI (which was awesome on mobile and still better than anything else out there) onto a desktop OS with very different use cases. I won't argue that Microsoft has made a few blunders, some of them quite major. They may be weak examples, but it's more than anyone else has been able to come up with, so kudos to you. Granted, I haven't really tried 11 yet, but the 10 "experience" is not too encouraging.įirst up, credit for at least being the first person who can provide a couple of examples. But we shouldn't have to put up with this. "Suck it up" ? Yep, we have no choice if we want to run some specific workloads. This is Microsoft, a company that's more than 50 years old, with thousands of (I guess) talented employees, sh*tloads of cash, there is simply no excuse for them to offer (impose ?) such a crappy, nonsensical and illogical UX to millions of users/customers/businesses. It has nothing to do with "looks" or taste, just plain functionality. At times it feels like the interface has been designed by Terry Gilliam. I could go on about the network/wifi settings. This is a mundane example, but shows the "philosophy" (or lack thereof) of this GUI. So why did it take me around 5-10 minutes the first time to find where to set the bloody screensaver, understand why the screen would go black without showing the chosen screensaver ? Oh yes, let's not forget the fact that the settings are shown in a Windows 7-style window (?). And I like to think I'm not (yet) completely senile. I've been tinkering with computers for ~35 years, as a hobby and then a job. And sorry, but it's not just about "oh they changed my menus, I'm all miffed" (holds breath, turns red) as you seem to imply. The big problem with Windows 8/10 is indeed the GUI. There is no question Windows 10 is quite stable, and the jury is still out regarding performance (OS and apps get more and more bloated over time but hardware has progressed a lot).īut Windows 7 was, as far as I'm concerned, very stable and mature as well. Of course I don't have any meaningful stats about this, but from my personal experience and (IT) people around me the problem is not about what's under the hood. Who cares!? You can still do all the same things you did before, so who cares what they call it? Call it Windows GooGoo-GaaGaa for all I give a rats arse. Windows 11 is just a name, the underlying OS is still fundamentally the same as Windows 10. I just don't get why people are so hung up on a branding decision. I will grant that MS did a terrible job of explaining a lot of their reasoning behind CPU support, and their decision to use the unfinished 10X UI is a little baffling, but on the whole the OS is a significant step forward. Windows 11 is another pivotal release by again increasing security, this time turning on by default a lot of hardware security functions from Windows 10, refinements to the process scheduler again (of great importance for anyone running a 12th or 13th gen Intel CPU), and has represented the largest effort to unify the disparate designs of various Windows components since Windows 95. Windows 8 was another crucial release that brought things like better support for multi-core CPUs in the process scheduler, more security hardening, and a lot of core tools (like Task Manager) got a facelift for the first time. Windows 7 was just a warmed over Vista that really didn't offer much except a rather obvious clone of the Mac OS X Dock. But the end result brought us a 3D hardware accelerated GUI, loads of security improvements, and a more solid foundation that could be used for future versions of Windows. Vista got stuck in a development hell because decades of decisions made in Windows NT/2000, made before the Internet existed, and when the product was intended for enterprise use, meant that XP pushed the codebase about as far as it could go without a major refactoring. Both of them represented big leaps forward in terms of under the hood improvements. Windows 8 was actually great, same with Vista.
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