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Feels like PG has to rewrite an article.

Microsoft woke from a coma.

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

Honestly, that kind of thing gets on my nerves. I guess I don't really care about computers in PG's view.

The reason that Windows sucks for most people is that IT departments suck. It's really something that has motivated me to find ways to stop the suck. There are lots of great innovations on the platform since Vista that just aren't used...It's like Windows admins are frozen in time somewhere around 2003.

Quite right, my home computers hardly had any problem, whereas the ones managed from IT, oh well....

I use Windows since version 3.0 where I configured my AUTOEXEC.BAT to boot straight into Windows, and after several detours with many UNIX flavours in the last decades, I have settled back in Windows as my main desktop OS.

I think the amount of remote exploits and drive by installers has something to do with it too... too many people have computers with malware on them. I don't entirely lay the blame on MS here as even Chrome, Firefox and various addons like Flash and Java have had remote exploits. Most malware doesn't need elevated privileges to be effective either. A lot of them run as browser extensions now.

More like, it died and a twin sibling took its place. Nowadays, Microsoft looks nothing like the old Microsoft.

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