Would the world have been a better place if Windows 9x was the line Microsoft decided to extend indefinitely?
Would the world have been a better place if Windows 9x was the line Microsoft decided to extend indefinitely?
Jaxson Morales
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Jeremiah Reyes
no, it was unstable as shit. windows 2000 forever would be good
Jordan Perry
I just lost a year of speechwriting to windows 10
Multiple years of fiction work that would he lost if not for my linux archival machine
Fuck windows 10
Blake Rivera
Just sign into your Office365 account with Microsoft OneDrive access and recover your files. You shouldn't be trying to store volatile data yourself anyway.
Cooper Phillips
1. I write everything in notepad and other plaintext formats because libreoffice is feature rich but distracting
Lucas Howard
No. Worse.
Ian Cook
2. Restored to previous edition and at least got back the last (best) speech I wrote qnd the current job proposal
In short fufucfufuck you and everything that troll post stood for
Asher Young
No because it should have been windows 2000 as the last windows to update forever.
Jace Taylor
The world would be a better place if every piece of proprietary software and it's producers were sent to the gulags.
Logan Evans
>single user system with no access control
yeah nah
Charles Hill
The interface yes, it looks professional and was more functional than today's shitfest. The system itself no, I don't know why the fuck Windows on DOS was so unstable, but god damn.
Cooper Richardson
>You shouldn't be trying to store volatile data yourself anyway.
my sides
Jaxon Davis
You can get the old Windows 95 look with classic shell.
Sebastian Williams
It was better for stability to get away from DOS, but as others said, interface wise could have easily evolved a bit. I mean look at stuff like this, it could've worked.
Jack Mitchell
9x look with xp stability is the best combo
Asher Turner
>flatshit
yikes
Isaiah Rodriguez
The dos based ones were crashing all the time. I remember being quite satisfied with my system if I could run quake 2 for an hour without a random bsod.
Robert Price
It was a beta it could've easily been changed in development.
Parker Hughes
>Glorified DOS shell
>no SMP support
>limited to 1.5GB of RAM
>finicky about ISA extensions (and everything else really)
Nope
Christian Scott
>taking Fischer Price over this aesthetic.
cringe
Sebastian Martin
The world have been a better place if Microsoft let Apple go bankrupt, and then get split up for being a monopoly.
Nathan Cook
This
Carson King
>Would the world have been a better place if Windows 9x was the line Microsoft decided to extend indefinitely?
yep
we would have faster single core CPUs instead of just a bunch of shit cores
Jayden Wood
It would at least be much more comfy desu
Josiah Ortiz
no.
new software good or bad keeps shit intresting
Angel Perez
How though? Why not version control?
Hudson Carter
>not having air gapped backups in a fireproof safe
>puts nuts out, pours gas on them, hands Windows 10 a lighter
Levi Rivera
>speechwriter
>can't afford $12/mo for Office
Deserved it.
John Taylor
That's what we got...
Ethan White
Colton Murphy
Only a zoomer could ask a question as retarded as this. Windows 9x was a shit show created solely so that DOS applications would continue to work while the Win32 API was introduced. It had zero security and zero system file protection. It crashed constantly because apps would shit their dlls all over the system directory and SxS wasn't a thing yet.
Jackson Jones
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Isaiah Lee
>it was unstable as shit
this. I remember the times of having to bring up the process manager and kill explorer.exe and then manually run it again when it frooze.
Michael Moore
True.
No, and you would never ask this if you worked with some dinosaurs from that era, namely Oracle RDBMS. I believe they had some kind of a re-design in 1992 with the introduction of PL/SQL stored procedures and riggers, but they just gradually evolved after that, piling layers of code on top of layers of code, it weights about 6 GB for both server and client, while PostgreSQL with its dependencies weights about
> Need to get 16,5 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 54,9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Of course, there are GUIs and Java and shit, but even XE is 2.5GB (!).
On top of that, it's uncomfortable to work with. It's hard to explain, but you feel how old it is, it's like going back to that mainframe era.
Bottom line: some software does not become classic, it rots, and additional features look like a lipstick on a pig. That's why MS rewrote Windows kernel from scratch in 1988-1992 and then again in 2003-2006.