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Someone forgets how long Windows 2000 took to boot ;-)
I recall it booting more slowly than 98 or ME, but I don't recall it being obnoxiously bad. I do remember disabling a lot of services I didn't think I needed, though.
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Lest one remembers Win 9x or even XP w/ no firewall on residential networks.
Behind a NAT. Can't remember a single problem with the described setup and I've been using the internet since dial-up was the only option available. Getting hacked when you don't have any open ports (thanks to NAT) is and was pretty unlikely - what was more likely is some kind of drive-by exploit in Flash or IE. The biggest problem I experienced with old Windows was general instability in the form of BSODs and driver…
NAT was for fancy-pants with multiple PCs.
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This is the funniest thing, considering it lacks 90% of the features included freeware text editors written in some student's spare time back in the 90s. It's basically a fancy textbox. Microsoft's own people can't use the toolkits they write, as evidenced by the React component in the start menu(!)
They can, the problem is that apparently they aren't able to hire people nowadays with Win32 development experience, so they get interns that have grown in US universities with macOS and Linux, which sundenly have a Win32 developer role. That is how you end up with web garbage in what was supposed to be native code, or .NET. I think this is also a reason why WinUI efforts went down the drain.
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> It's basically a fancy textbox. That was the lure. But the real Notepad has been decommissioned and there is some bloated one now.
Is notepad++ still a thing? I only use Windows as a dumb terminal now.
Microsoft has gone full-blown evil corporation again. No customer validation on any of the AI cruft. No full OPT OUT. Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. I've been a Windows user from day one and I now see a future without it. Satya had been a bright spot in Microsoft, but this blind lust for AI, especially in bed with Altman who is pure con artist, is unforgivable. Some of the investment…
If so?’, then what the heck users are cool with these things?
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"optional, experimental off-by-default service" is Microsoft-ese for "1-2 years away from being always on and unremovable"
So you're outraged at something that hasn't happened. Or to say it another way, you're outraged because you can imagine something bad happening?
The outrage here will probably not stop MS but it does signal that it is not a welcome move and it hopefully stops them from doing more bad things.
Even if few people realize that they don't have to tolerate this and if it make them move to alternatives, its worth it.