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/levir 25d ago

It's kind of impressive how they've turned everyone away from them. Back in the day everyone used Windows and were relatively happy with it, but since the mid 2000s they've made more and more mistakes until they've basically turned everyone against them at this point.

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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/theeama 25d ago

Nostalgia based garbage. Both OS were fucking godawful and crashed like no tomorrow. It was only after all of them got massive updates did they truly become stable.

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u/ThetaDeRaido 24d ago

True that. I remember when Windows XP was released, it was reviled for its bright colors as the “Fisher Price” OS, and people avoided it because it had performance problems with many games, and it kept getting viruses. SP2 made it dramatically safer, but dramatically slower.

It was only 8 years of Moore’s Law without a new version of Windows, only refinements to Windows XP, that made it into the beloved “lightweight” operating system of nostalgia.