What went right?

>but muh start menu
that's literally the only problem. third party start menus are a thing

I skipped 8, and 8.1

But there's no reason for 8.1 when 7 is still perfectly useable

Really not the performance the concerns me.

So, that's why it's not okay? Great.

No. I'm just saying I skipped them, and can not argue for, or against 8/8.1.
No clue if they were good, bad, okay. During that time 7 ultimate was comfy for me, and 8/8.1 didn't seem worth buying.

Normies getting used to NT style security

What a beautiful map. Human can get together and overcome our differences as one after all

Chad Windows 8 vs virgin rest of the world

Windows 10 always wins baby.

>china and india still using windows 7
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I only upgraded because of dx12. W7 had a good run up until then. It fucked up that Microsoft just stopped trying after windows 7 though.

Clean and consistent UI, good backwards compatibility, stable, high performance, good hardware support and sufficient security for average user. Not perfect but the peak windows since it went downhill thereafter.

lol windows 7 UI is hardly any more consistent than 10

There is nothing less consistent than shit10. And win7 has best UI ever made. And it is consistent.

if you want consistency just get a mac. windows always let apps do whatever the hell they want with the UI

>charms
>start button
>stuck with the fucking dwm
that shit is only okay after heavy tweaking and, particularly disabling the first one and replacing the second one with the classic start button.

Third one is unfixable - it just bugs out on you if you ever try to forcefully turn it off.

How would this map look like, if Microsoft wouldn't have forcefully pushed Win10 on the users computers.
Many people shut down their computers, just to realize next day at startup, that Win10 installs without their permission. even if you twice or even more refused this questionable botnet update.

Just Works

>I only upgraded because of dx12
You wasted your time and money. DXVK12 renders Wontworks 10 totally obsolete.

It didn't look like shit. XP was comfy too but had too many problems. Win7 is still windows, so it has Windows problems but it was better than Vista, which was decent. 8 is garbage and 8.1 was usable. Win10 is just asking for butt fucking in the ass.

It was an operating system made when MS were on top and weren't under pressure by stockholders and investors to squeeze every penny they can out of users.

I expected Japan to be the grey windows xp

>You wasted your time and money
I wasted it a long time ago, but yea dx12 iirc was one of the main reasons why I decided to *buy* windows 10 pro.

Nothing the only thing Win7 had going for it was that it was stable. That's the baseline expectation for proprietary software and people still celebrate it like it's an achievement.
I fear for the day that Win7 support will end and I have to deal with 8 or 10 at work. Getting rid of 10's telemetry was an enormous pain in the ass and just thinking of 8 gives me an aneurysm.
I want to have my things run on XP and DOS again.

Damnés toute cette technologie

Hardware caught up by the time it was released. Also this was the first time MS didn't low ball the minimum requirements to get as many people and OEMs to load their PCs with their flagship OS.

>Microsoft hires professionals

Whoever thought Windows 8 was the chad windows?

It's better than Windows 7

>Wayland is good, and Linus cares about security

At least they used to.

>North Korea
>Windows 10
Wait, what?

it was a refined version of xp. nothing ground breaking. it just worked

Nothing. It's just Vista: Less shitty edition.

There's one computer at Kim Jong-un and it has Windows 10 installed.

XP, but modern.

>high performance

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>Getting rid of 10's telemetry was an enormous pain in the ass and just thinking of 8 gives me an aneurysm.
It amazes me that people use this a a ding against 10 when you don't have to do it and the OS works fine otherwise

meant for

user I don't think you realize how bad it is in windows 10.
They're supposed to do the same thing but the new one works way worse on every level.
Same goes for the now 3 levels of network settings. To configure your nic via GUI is now 6-7 UI windows deep. Windows 7 was at 4.

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MS wants modern GUI hosts but shit like the control panel and other GUIs have been ingrained into windows for almost 20 years, there is no quick and easy way to replace all that shit in a timely matter which is why you get the clusterfuck you have now

No.
Being barely better than 8.1 does not make it better than 7.

The global stats image with Windows 8.1 is old.

Without Microsoft forcing people to update/upgrade/change/addopt new OS , the whole map would be win9x shit
7fags in 2019 are like XPfags from 2012

that's why you stick with 7 until early 2020, then move to 8 until 2023 (and hope MS gets their shit together by then). it's safe to take the same approach with linux distros that employ release upgrades instead of rolling. i'm also sticking with ubuntu xenial until 2021. see absolutely no point in upgrading either OS until EOL, because they both get security patches. why waste your time upgrading to a new release when there's no real benefit to doing so?

win 10 is ok and is getting better, only problem is that you must block annoying updates

give windows 10 5 more years, this is beta shit

>winxp was shit
win xp was shit, although win xp were the base for win 7 as microshit ditched a shitload of changes they did to the vista kernel and the interface itself.
the last good windows you got and the most stable was winxp.
even win7 had a serious botnet problem, connecting to suspicious ips all the time and it had a shitload of useless services running.
as someone who went from 95 to 98s.e. and then had to wait for the shitstorm that win2k was to be EOL'd, I can tell you that nobody over 12 in 2000(year, not decade) didn't like getting win2k and have all the instability issues.

>winxp was shit
WinXP-sp3 is almost perfect.
They'll never match WFW3.11

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Vista going wrong.

They took Vista SP2 and renamed it. That, with an actual driver and software support from devs was all it took to make normies love 7.

Watch newer anime

10 came out in 2015, it's 2019 now and it's barely any different.
Often worse than it was.

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Fuck 10 and 8/8.1. Garbage shit. If they'd released an updated Windows 7 w/all patches and USB 3 drivers baked in no one would be complaining about anything. Windows 7 can take 192GB ram, GPT means that ssd/hdd sizes are for all intents limitless. Cpu core support is listed at 200+ (not sockets; cores)

So on the hardware side of things the limit has not been hit yet. V.S XP which would cap you at 4GB ram and 2TB HDD.

there was 64-bit version of xp, so it technically could support more than 4gb of ram
it was terrifyingly buggy, but that probably could have been patched with service packs
2tb hdd limit still remains though

>doubt

Windows 7 will forever be considered the absolute peak of x86/x64 OSes. When Microsoft was taken over by the poos(may the pakis bomb them into oblivion) it ceased to be Microsoft imo.

>winxp was shit
>winvista was ok
>8.1 is ok
pic related, you

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Is that thing still supported & patched by Microsoft ?
apps.nsa.gov/iaarchive/library/ia-guidance/security-configuration/operating-systems/security-highlights-of-windows-7.cfm

>they took vista SP2 and rebranded it to something that wasn't cursed with the reputation of its awful predecessor
>then they actually supported it properly unlike vista
>then they made several UI overhauls that have a huge impact
>then they improved performance and memory usage heavily
Yeah that's all it took who knew!

>Is that thing still supported & patched by Microsoft ?
Yes, regularly.

The 64-bit version of XP (x64 edition) was basically a cut down version of Server 2003. IIRC you couldn't boot either off a GPT partition, but both did support GPT for data storage, hence you could throw an extra 3TB+ drive in your machine for your ISOs and uncompressed HD porn.
I wouldn't say it was buggy; however almost nothing supported it. Drivers were hard to come by and a lot of programs that were also available in (((server editions))) would refuse to install (anti-virus, backup, etc.).

Regular ol' 32-bit XP did support more than 4GB of RAM, but I think that was only in the RTM days and required PAE. MS shut that shit down with SP1 or 2.

>Niggers use 8

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Even with DWM permanently enabled, it still works better than Windows 7 though.
I remember I got better results with 8.1 than with 7 back in my old PC.

based

Kek.

>winxp
>stable
wanna know how i know you never used it?

He probably meant SP2 or 3, been using 2 for roughly 15 years, perfectly stable.

oh man, that thing bluescreened me whenever it felt like it. i still loved it, though.

based Chad
fuckers dont give a shit
and theyre unironically using the best Windows OS

7 is not that much more stable than 8.1 is, but RAM management is definitely not that good. It's quite a shame people are more into things like "does this start menu look good" instead of things that matter.

I wonder what you're using it for, because I had less bsods with the fuckin Vista, and Vista was wonky garbage.

The only bsods in 15 years were from a faulty RAM slot, dying GPU or bad drivers.