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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago… I worked for Microsoft.
… during the time the rolled out Win8, by dogfooding it through every employee and contractor.
I don’t know anyone that hates Microsoft and Windows more than I do.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 day ago
'98 was a marginal improvement over '95 at least
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Agreed, peaked at 7.
And its been literally all downhill from there.
I actually could not believe what was happening, when they rolled out 8 on us.
“We’ve removed… the windows… from Windows.”
Saying that outloud made my boss very angry.
We spent a month pleading to let us go back to 7, to use some kind of standard, non tablet UI.
For a month they told is that didn’t exist in 8, the UI was all totally new and redesigned from the ground up, and no we can’t go back to 7.
But, they were lying, of course. There was a sequence you could to to override the new UI that had indeed been slapdashed over 7’s UI, to go back to 7’s UI.
(Where 7’s UI is modified XP UI, which is modified 98 UI… etc)
We figured it out, they’d patch it to not work, some other email chain would figure out some other override, they’d patch that out.
After about a month of that they actually admitted that the 7 UI was indeed still there and was not just some kind of emergency fall back mode.
Some months later, 8.1 is basically just them making the 7 UI mode fully work.
Again, I literally could not believe how stupid this all was, to the point of sometimes literally dissociating.