What went so right?

Nostalgia

No bloat

>>105995449 (OP)
>What went so right?
White straight males as devs.

My desktop experience on Arch Linux is way better than the desktop experience of Windows 7. The fact that wincucks thinks this is the best OS Microsoft has ever made is just outright pitiful

>>105995449 (OP)
why can't we have simple functioning operating systems like this anymore? Windows 7 never gave me any problems the entire decade that i used it. it never frustrated me ever. it only crashed a single time in all the years that i used it.

Why doesn't the industry make stuff like this now? we are forced to go full freetard because there are no alternatives.

>>105995449 (OP)
It was a rerelease of an already pretty good OS. It was Windows Vista SP3 thinly veiled as a new OS

>>105995496
The competent white men mostly left Microsoft, and the MBA bean counters, project manager women, and jeet "coders" (and 18485 of their closest friends) joined to suckle on the corporate teat, paid for by US Government military contract dollars.

>>105995449 (OP)
nothing did. windows 7, like all windows versions, anything and everything from microsoft, is pure, unadulterated HORSESHIT.

>>105995496
MicroDick became a monopoly and the computer industry plateaued in its growth. So sells of Windows peaked. Now MicroDick is bleeding users. They lost 400 million users IIRC since the release of Windows 11 to Apple, Linux, and Google.
So to make up for the loss of sales, they turned to data mining and replaced all the competent developers with cheap, brown skin labour.

>>105995478
all DE's linux has to offer suck ass compared to explorer

>>105995563
Simply don't install a DE, your system is way faster that way. And if you do want one, for the love of god, not Gnome. The bloat is insane. I dualboot win7 and arch

>>105995449 (OP)
More care was taken in the development of the OS because you couldn't "just push a patch" to fix a 10GB OS over shitty 2000s dialup. PCs were slow (and often 32-bit) so it had to be more optimized than modern shit. SAAS and cloud bullshit didn't exist back then.

Computers got beefier and the OS aged like a fine wine. A time capsule from a less decadent ecosystem.

>>105995524
Some shits are smellier than others. This one (and XP before it) were the least smelly MS turds.

>>105995449 (OP)
>What went so right?
They essentially took the fresh new look of Vista but actually put one more year of development time into it so that it would work correctly and run stable, and it turns out that putting the work into doing things right was a good call and resulted in a popular product that was well received.

Then they threw all of that away by shitting out Windows 8 as fast as possible AND make it cross platform with a cellphone line no one cared about and they failed again.

>>105995474
based

>>105995449 (OP)
First windows version that figured out decent support for all the relevant stuff we use up to this days and last one without mobile flatshit UI, ads, recall, artificial hardware requirements and other faggotry.
>>105995478
>wincucks
said the loontroon who can't run any decent software and has to be connected to the internet 24/7.
>>105995496
Because modern windows is maintained mostly by shitskins and AI. Competent whites/asians no longer develop it.
>>105995524
ok loontroon
>>105995563
tsmt
>>105995738
>you must torture yourself with a plain wm because I said so

>>105995511
>It was Windows Vista SP3 thinly veiled as a new OS
This pretty much.

Plus computers got fast enough to run it (big problem at Vista launch), and there was now a proper driver ecosystem (also a big problem at Vista launch), and all apps got new versions that worked without UAC popups.

>>105996493
everything after 8 is sunk cost fallacy
they could just go fucking back and revise their plan in right direction, but they refuse to do this and gaslighted themselves into thinking the changes were good

>>105995474
>White
>straight
>males
What kind of oxymoron is this?

>>105995474
>conveniently ignores all of the old law
>conveniently ignores Jesus's racism towards gentiles
>conveniently ignores the contradictions and corruption in the bible
Furthermore, is it not the same new testament that is used to justify racism and killing numerous people across the ages even fellow Christians? Do you whites really believe Jesus was white or even white-ish or send to white people?

>>105998726
morning, rabi

It had the classic theme

>>105995474
Back then 64% of the devs where non-white, Microsoft had official support for minorities and gay people etc. Back then and even today, Linux has 0% official support for any of that or LGBT. Funny how you always support LGBT by using things like WIndows 7, proprietary Brave LGBT browser etc. You are brain damaged and live in a bubble.

>>105995449 (OP)
Consumers already recognize the brand and most think they have near 0 viable alternatives.
Computer/PC = Windows
So why bother doing anything than changing the theme, pushing ads, and selling user data? Nobody wants to repeat the netscape rewrite.
>>105998904
Offended by everything

>>105995449 (OP)
No jeets

>>105998191
>t. picrel

>>105995474
Very based, Brother.

>>106002364
>>t.picrel