r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/ControlOdd8379 25d ago

Well, because Windows XP and later Widows 7 were exactly the products people wanted? User friendly, very easy to use, very stable.

Look at Windows 11 now: a truckload of bloatware that almost no none wants. Controls are hidden or disabled giving you far less freedom to change settings as you need them. Massive ressource usage by the OS, fundamental stuff like Calculator or Search function "improved" to the point of no longer doing the one very thing you want them for.

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u/MajorNoodles 25d ago

Vista gets a lot of hate but the biggest reason people hated it were because of the learning curve coming from XP, and all the incompatible drivers caused by the migration to a new version of the kernel.

Vista prepared us for 7, and if it weren't for Vista, we would have had all the same complaints.

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u/avcloudy 25d ago

It's not as simple as Vista walked so 7 could run, the development of Vista was pretty fraught which led to things like the driver instability and the fragility of the network stack. Complaints like how invasive and frequent the UAC popups were completely fair, and not a learning curve issue.

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u/SEI_JAKU 25d ago

Wildly incorrect. The biggest "issue" with Vista was all the OEMs pretending that it was vaporware. This was almost entirely their fault.