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Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now (go.theregister.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

vista was also a good system. the market just tried to push it on people with hardware which was not up to the task. when 7 released, compatible hardware was already in place.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not just hardware, drivers. Driver support was abysmal. On a decent hdd with updated drivers vista was fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    yeah because driver were previously allowed to do whatever the hell they wanted with the system and vista introduced a baselevel of security.

    the rollout was a mess, the os really wasn't. which is a surprise considering the development story.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'll also put Vista's bad reputation down to that it was the first version with UAC, which if I recall was set too sensitive, combined with the fact that it was something new and weird for most Windows users at the time and the fact that a lot of software didn't have time to catch up to add proper compability with the system.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    it's not that it was too sensitive, it was that windows was previously a lawless land where every application had full access to the entire system. you're bound to get some compatibility issues from that.

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