Ahh yes, let’s stack system edits to not be prioritized in memory then written to disk. What’s that, a power outage? Well sucks to be you, reinstall.
We still talk about you because some dumb internal applications that were created more than 2 decades ago and nobody dares to update are still running on them, creating awful cybersecurity weaknesses and dragging the entire network down with it.
Probably 10 years ago I encountered a pump on a job. It was huge. 2-3 stories tall. Probably cost millions.
There was a computer plugged into, an old beige tower case and a CRT monitor with RS232 serial cable between it and the pump.
This was the control system, it was connected to the network (airgapped LAN fortunately).
Was running NT4!
I have no idea why it was set up this way, PLCs were definitely the standard at the time and there were older PLCs than that on the site. No one who worked there was around when it was installed, it was just the way it was.
Why is this the Windows 95 logo with the XP name photoshopped in?
It was made by an LLM running on Windows ME.
Cut AI some slack. /jj
But damn, people did hold onto Win XP SP3 because Vista was shit and 7, just like 10, had very rough starts.
And fuck 11. The first time a computer’s OS had Intel Inside.
I think Windows peaked with 7. The last time that you felt like the upgrade was worth it or at least not a step backwards.
I’m almost at the point where if my company gets me a high-end subscription to an AI system, I’m just gonna backport all of the security updates to 7 and start rocking it again.
Agree although I loved XP. 10 wasn’t terrible in the end, and 11 is a shit show
My big gripe with windows 10 is them putting half of settings in the Settings app but you still need to dig out the legacy control panel for stupid shit like audio device management that makes sense.
10 was ugly IMO and it turned the anti-consumer bullshit up to 11
I will say that 7 lacks the cool retro flavor that XP had, but maybe that’s just because lots of Linux UI looks about as old as 7 (Cinnamon being the biggest “offender”).
People said the same about XP when Windows 7 came out.
And they will say the same about Windows 10 when Windows 12 comes out.
It all depends on the Windows version you are most familiar with.
I never heard anyone say that. Windows 7 was generally well regarded as soon as it came out.
This is exactly right. I suffered through vista, loved the hell out of 7, and right as 8 came out, someone offered me an iMac for cheap. Started learning OS X and when 8 came out and I saw what was going on, I never went back.
Yeah, I was going to say 7 as well.
XP was an unmitigated disaster at release it got better tho.
I still talk with folks about what an unmitigated security disaster it was prior to SP2.
Why XP and not 2000?
Yeah, 2000 was everything good about xp without the bad.
Its the last version of windows I ran at home.
Sadly family and work require me to be familiar with what microsoft has released since then
NT and Windows 7…things just worked.
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No '95, 2K and ME.
I liked 98SE better than ME.
No Windows 10
