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It's funny how I find Win98 more user friendly and logical than Win10. Just look at the start menu where thing are sorted in folders. No ads optimizations anywhere. Just an annoying shortcut on the desktop for MS Internet. Is it possible to make a program like the sheep.exe nowadays? It is awesome.
Microsoft's backward compatibility is still pretty impressive.
Back when the system settings could be reached with less clicks, were organised in a logical way and didn't use most of the screen as white-space.
You mean before windows tried to be designed as a a tablet OS while being on desktop for 8.0, failed on both as easily predicted, and then refused to admit the mistake ever since beside the one mandatory change of adding a normal start button / menu back? That full screen start view was one hell of an abomination....
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I think the pinnacle must have been before the title bar gradients were added. They always annoyed me: is the title bar any less of a title bar towards the right? No? Then why does it fade out?
To be fair the colors were configurable and you could easily get rid of the gradient. Remember doing that, but I'm not sure if it was win98.
Back when the system settings could be reached with less clicks, were organised in a logical way and didn't use most of the screen as white-space.
You mean before windows tried to be designed as a a tablet OS while being on desktop for 8.0, failed on both as easily predicted, and then refused to admit the mistake ever since beside the one mandatory change of adding a normal start button / menu back? That full screen start view was one hell of an abomination....
Here is something that I stumbled upon that I think was a big loss: HTML Help [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help ] It's unfortunate that Microsoft didn't work toward making it an open source standard for documentation. We'd have avoided every other documentation having it's own format, style, etc... Plus you get the whole documentation in a single file, not worrying about broken stuff, missi…
I remember when you could bypass the login prompt and open a web browsing session by going to HTML Help. If I recall correctly you could run executables from the resulting browser's address bar too.
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Personally I feel it's completely understandable. Microsoft has huge market power. It's hard to abandon software you are locked in. More importantly people who suffer from to those interfaces are not in position of power to make switch operating systems. Forcing them to eat what MS feeds them seems like good way to experiment. If experiment fails, you don't have to hurry and repair it.
I agree with you for desktop, but I think you missed the part where he said "for servers", as-in when you install windows server. The default homepage for it should be msdn or bing or whatever, but msn makes zero sense.
It's funny how I find Win98 more user friendly and logical than Win10. Just look at the start menu where thing are sorted in folders. No ads optimizations anywhere. Just an annoying shortcut on the desktop for MS Internet. Is it possible to make a program like the sheep.exe nowadays? It is awesome.
More likely than not, sheep.exe still works perfectly on a Windows 10 box (at least if it happens to be 32-bit). Microsoft's backward compatibility is still pretty impressive.
