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> A lot of people don't like the traditional Microsoft products but all of the products just work and are being used for tens of millions of customers around the globe every day.

I have never spent a dime buying a MS product (directly) but they definitely don't "just work" based on my experience with my work computer. Windows is awfully slow, Office and Teams are sometimes just unusable because they take so much memory on my machine and keep freezing randomly. I do agree that MS used to be the company where products just worked (windows 95, 98, office 2003 and prior, hotmail etc.), but these days pretty much all MS products are awful.

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If your PC is slow, and and running out of memory for apps. It may be time for an upgrade.

Your Core2Duo machine is a little old now there buddy.

You have windows 95 as a OS that just "worked"

Windows 7 was the first Windows OS that "Just Worked"

One thing that may be worth considering is the quality of corporate laptops that are handed out versus, say, a top of the line custom-built PC.

Outside of any gaming rig I've built I've never used a good Windows computer for work. Not a "top of the line" laptop, not a virtual desktop client, nothing. Every single one has absolutely sucked.

They give non-developers at my work Surface devices, and those people have nothing but issues.

Core2Duo might be old but apparently MS also considers skylake i5s "old" as well.

It might be time to downgrade office instead.

tbf, skylake is 14nm and 6 yrs old now. It is objectively old, though probably good enough for another 5+yrs.

you mean windows 7 sp2, right?

People say the same thing about apple products, but both Microsoft and Apple products never 'just work' for 90% of what I'm trying to do, and if they do the process is convoluted and unintuitive from my experience

Honestly this is my experience as well, they “just work” till they just don’t work. Than getting either the Apple or Microsoft product to work is usually hours of time wasted.

I guess you could say the same about open source or systems like Linux where they also have their issues, but fixing those issues always seems to be a fraction of the time.

Apple and Microsoft products aren’t even on the same dimension when it comes to poor design decisions, cruft, stability and performance. Microsoft fell behind a while ago.

And apple seems to be catching up

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