Way too little way too late Microsoft. After 30 years I will never choose Windows again. Got on Windows with 3.1 and off the train with 11. It's not me--it's you.
As maligned as it was... I think Vista was actually servicable if all the extra visual effects and UAC stuff was turned off. It ended up looking more like a plainly styled XP desktop and ran moderately well on laptops just for a win32 C development machine (emacs, gcc/msvc cl.exe). I had this setup for windows builds, with a Linux desktop as my main machine.
At least back then more of the original engineering talent that Microsoft had was still around, and you would even run into them on irc from time to time. 20 years on, I suspect a lot of the foundational personalities that drove engineering decisions have since retired or been made redundant, and that reflects the weird UI fracturing and endless regressions. I doubt they can recover at this point.
It is still running Windows games, developed on Windows, which is used by game studios full of Windows desktops, using Visual Studio and DirectX 11/12.
Those same studios are using GNU/Linux on their game servers, or even targeting Android NDK for their games.
[–] hx8 4 days ago
[–] turpentine 4 days ago
At least back then more of the original engineering talent that Microsoft had was still around, and you would even run into them on irc from time to time. 20 years on, I suspect a lot of the foundational personalities that drove engineering decisions have since retired or been made redundant, and that reflects the weird UI fracturing and endless regressions. I doubt they can recover at this point.
[–] lelanthran 4 days ago
I got off on Windows 95.
[–] adventured 4 days ago
[–] jswelker 4 days ago
[–] OnlineTux 4 days ago
Support for Gaming - not Wine, but hardware support and performance.
[–] jswelker 4 days ago
[–] pjmlp 3 days ago
Those same studios are using GNU/Linux on their game servers, or even targeting Android NDK for their games.