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0 pointsDrBazza5d ago0 comments

This is the correct answer. Win2k was probably the most solid and cruft-free release that they did.

Then the enshittification started with Window XP, jelly-mold/curved glass buttons, activation, and .NET everywhere, followed by the disaster that was Vista.

They released Windows 7, and somehow then decided, yet again, to screw things up with Windows 8 because 'mobile'.

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pjmlp5d ago

If only .NET was actually everywhere like Swift on Apple, or Java/Kotlin on Google land.

Instead we keep having COM with shitty tooling for the relevance it has on the OS API surface, especially since Vista.

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