Initial release date: July 29, 2015
That's over 10 years of support. Not bad
That's over 10 years of support. Not bad
I think Win2K was the last consistent UI version of Windows... everything felt like it belonged together in terms of look and feel. With Win7, I liked the enhancements to the new taskbar, but other than that didn't care for much. Since then it's been an increasingly half baked mess.
That's why we made sure you can't disable telemetry unless you pay up for an enterprise-level eula.
Good luck submitting error and telemetry reports whenever an update bricks your motherboard.
FTFY
Even notepad is completely fucked up.
mmc and cmd still virtually unchanged since 1999
Windows 11 initial release date: October 5, 2021.
That's 4 years of support after successor was released.
This reminds of "Windows is a single platform" rant from some 20 years ago.