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Hey, do you accept congratulations from someone who's used nothing but Unices for ages now?

The stuff you and your (now former) colleagues have put up lately is remarkable. The last version of Windows I used on my home machine was Windows 2000, and Windows 10 is the first one I've looked at since then and said you know, I could actually use this thing, I guess.

I don't trust your (former) bosses enough to make the switch, but you folks have done some pretty amazing stuff lately.

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Ha! This makes me chuckle. I myself was a web developer during the decade of IE6 dominance, advocating for Mozilla all the while. Despite it being trendy and contrarian to praise "M$" nowadays, I feel like that ice is only now beginning to thaw. Not so much the coming of spring, but a slight decrease in the hoarfrost on the windowpane. Great shuddering booms as the lake ice cracks. That sort of thing. Yes, if Microsoft continues being non-horrible, I may eventually warm up to them :)

Shuffles back to corner. Furtively plays with new TypeScript toy. Hisses at passerby.

I remember installing Mozilla Firefox on family friends computers in those years and changing the icon to IE so the average person wouldn’t notice and the world would have one more Firefox user.

I was a teenager.

interesting. did it work?

From my experience, it usually did.

Not with my hank and other banks

Did your hank sell propane and propane accessories ?

It worked perfectly.

> new TypeScript toy.

One thing I’ve come to realize is that MS definitely excels at programming language design, coming out of college I had no experience with the MS CLR languages and I was pleasantly surprised at how well designed and usable their languages are.

That's funny, because Windows 2000 Pro was the version I liked the most.

Yep, a maintained Win2k with a real terminal and shell would be the pinnacle of OS interface design.

Remember when we were allowed to customize our own color themes?

I also liked Windows 2000, very much. I used it on-and-off (though mostly on...) while I was learning Linux. I switched around 2003 or so, I think. After that... up until Windows Vista or so I was just being a l33t h4x03 hipster kid. After that I was legitimately getting better stuff in Linux land.

Windows 95 was a game changer for me.

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