would you say windows 7 was the last time microsoft treated their users like a person of normal intelligence and not an absolute drooling retard?
>>109034614It was the last time they had to try to make a functional consumer product because they were still dependent on the Desktop market. Their server side prospects were still in the toilet, their Zune mobile platforms hadn't been invented yet, and their cloud based ecosystem wouldn't be a thing for a few more years.Then Vista was their big misstep that made them realize that appealing to customers was for suckers, they'll always be upset no matter what you do. Then Windows 8 which was the Zune generation aka 'Windows Mobile is the future, everyone use Metro and touchscreens now' and then windows 10 which was the start of Cloud Microsoft. Even requires a fucking Microsoft account and has ads for their cloud apps in the task bar.
>>109034638>appealing to customers Has Balmer ever?
>>109034704Absolutely. That's why he had the DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS meltdown in the first place: Those Developers who were going to lead customers to the promised land of his mobile utopia simply never materialized. That's when board members realized Developers AND Customers were lame ducks and what mattered more was selling cloud services to existing companies who already had captive customers and developers. Thus making their userbase their own
win11 has perhaps more customisation options any windows ever and ms main products are software like flight simulator, office and photos
>>109034614Yes, but can we blame them for their current behavior when there are so many clueless coonsoomers? I.E.: >>109035030
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>>109035287I think he’s just underaged based on this post >>109035305
>>109034614No, windows 2000 was the last windows that didn't think you had sub 80 iq. Windows 7 was the last time Microsoft considered you a customer though. Even then, barely.
>>109034638Windows Vista was before 7 my guy.
>>109034614>trying to bait me with sexy anime girls
>>109037146windows 7 was a shitty cash grab that ripped off macos x and killed 16 bit app compatability making decades worth of windows and dos programs unusable that doesnt sound like considering me a customer
>>109034614No, because UAC. Its just that the following Windows releases were worse.XP was probably the last one that trusted the user to know what they're doing
>>109040113>UAC is not trusting the userLmao. Enjoy your trivial privilege escalation by design
>>109034614No way, it was XP instead
>>109039954> killed 16 bit app compatabilityUtterly false. 16bit app compatability was lost with 64bit windows, it has exactly nothing to do with windows 7.The reason why 16bit apps don't work on 64bits is because handles have 32 significant bits on 64bit windows. This makes it impossible to pass handles through 16bit code. On 32bit windows handles only had 16 significant bits.
>>109042621I love how wine can still run most 16-bit windows programs on 64-bit system.
>>109042658There is software like wine you can use on windows too, dosbox for example.
>>109042658Wine usually runs in 32bit mode even on 64bit linux. But besides that, wine probably keeps the 16bit handles even in 64bit mode. Microsoft made the decision to make handles 32bits, because presumably some customers were running out of handles.
>>109034614Here's the thing, most users are absolute drooling retards. My mom doesn't know what a tab is or that if she clicks a link from her email it will go to a different website and isn't ust part of her email. I don't even blame Microshit for their shift in how they treat their users. At some point you have to do the parental thing and protect them from themselves. So many Shitdows users were getting infected via vulns fixed months ago, simply because they would put updates off and off and off.Microsoft Shitdows is made for literal retards and treats you like a literal retard. If you don't want to be treated like a literal retard, use Troonix.
>>109034614Windows 7 was the drooling retard OS of it's day, though, it's just seen as some power user OS because enough time has passed, It's not even my era but Windows 2000 professional was really Windows NT without all the bullshit.
>>1090346148 was treating us like tablet users which is merely absolute retard adjacent
