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Windows 12 will be good again.

Win95 (bad), Win98 (good), WinMe (bad), WinXP (good), Win Vista (bad), Win 7 (good), Win 8 (bad), Win 10 (good), Win 11 (bad), ...

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The next version will be called "Windows", to keep things simple. Then we will retroactively refer it to as "Windows 2027", but generally still fail to be able to query useful info on it. The next one will be "Windows 13".

At this rate Windows 12 is going to be saas and cost $25 a month to rent your own computer.

but it will come with Copilot++

Please, this is Microsoft.

It'll be Copilot#

I really kind of doubt we'll actually see a W12. Microsoft appears to have lost all interest in creating an operating system in favor of a revenue system.

Best case, W11 tanks when W10 goes away and Microsoft becomes irrelevant on the PC.

More realistically, W11 will become SaaS with a sort of rolling release similar to Arch. After all, why build a new OS when you can do nothing and rake in subscription fees? Actually, why create anything of value when you have such a profitable racket as renting people's own PC to them for literally any price you want?

Hopefully Microsoft wither dies or becomes an ineffectual zombie like IBM or HP.

7 was their highpoint.. It was the 1st version that actually consistently worked good and was otherwise pretty clean.. 10 is a big step down from 7, it has a lot of extraneous shit in it.

Yep, as my old only-used-for-obscure-firmware-updates laptop’s Intel i5 CPU isn’t “supported” by Windows 11, I now went back to Windows 7 on that thing. And boy is that a performance boost over Win10! Using LegacyUpdate you can get it pretty much up to date and there’s even VxKext-NEXT to emulate the few API calls that Windows 10 added.

It’s not for everyday use, but if you need some Windows machine to run old software and won’t surf the Internet with it, it’s awesome.

Yes, 10 is the combo breaker here. I'd honestly rather use 8 than 10 - despite the questionable UI decisions - but it's obsolete.

Win 8.1 was really solid, used it for a few years.

Windows 2000 was really solid IMO. I have really fond memories of learning and using it at school back around that time.

True, and it was some sort of "new technology".

Although quite some applications could not run on it, due to compatibility issues, so it is not in the list.

The time between releases is getting longer though, our children might live a lifetime with a bad release after 12

My suspicion is that they make the stopgap OSes deliberately shitty and performance hungry so they can sell on the easy gains and improvements. I know, "never attribute malice" but this is such a theme, over 9 generations of an OS, that it can't be completely accidental.

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