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When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good?

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Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn’t always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

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Rimu@piefed.social
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Windows 2000 was the peak - rock solid with no visual fluff. XP was 2000 with a childish skin on it and it’s all downhill from there.

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stoly@lemmy.world
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I’ve always believed that 2k was the best software they ever produced.

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grue@lemmy.world
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Nah, that would surely be a game or something. Maybe Age of Empires II?

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toddestan@lemmy.world
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Naw, the best software they’ve ever produced is 6502 BASIC.

Though Flight Simulator does get an honorable mention.

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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Oh man that was one of the few windows distros I never felt too compelled to reinstall. Perf just never degraded that much with a reasonably defragged drive (jesus I am dating myself with that statement)

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neidu2@feddit.nl
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I remember all the nicknames from when XP came out. I don’t remember which was more common; disco windows, or teletubby windows.

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1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world
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In my neck of the woods it was called fisher price windows lol

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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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I gamed on Win2k until I couldn’t anymore because of requirements. It was excellent.

I eventually ended up on XP, and the first thing I did was shut off the Fisher Price skin. It still never ran quite as good as Win2k.

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