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Honestly Windows 7 was the best OS they ever built. It just went downwards from there, and they abandoned it essentially.

I don't understand what's going on at Microsoft, but they leave huge stacks of money on the table. LTSC versions weren't "popular", they were the least worst option for a lot of industries. And now they kinda completely ignored all customer feedback.

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Microsoft managed to make every other release of Windows good.

95 good, NT 4 bad, 98 good, 98 SE bad, 2000 good, Me bad, XP good, Vista bad, 7 good...

The plan with Windows 10 was to light their desktop market share on fire in the hopes they could see iPads in the distance and try to chase them. Windows 11 was codenamed "give your toxic ex a second chance."

I kind of remember 98SE being an improvement. Otherwise agree though

Nah, 98SE was a clear improvement over the base 98.

XP SP2 was pretty good too.

As was Windows NT & 2000 for their time.

Win2k is where it was at. It was also my last windows os ....

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