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Microsoft is being sued by a man who feels cheated by the current plans to sunset Windows 10. He makes some good points, but I doubt he'll win.

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[โ€“] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Win 2k pro was best. Fight me;) I hated the fisher price look of XP.

[โ€“] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

the fisher price look of XP.

Thank you for my belly laugh of the day. ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] Randelung@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I liked Vista. Aero Glass was cool.

[โ€“] TBi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah they peaked at NT4.0! Fight me! I remember using that for my dual core celeron system! Abit BP6 FTW.

(I agree with you about 2k, but I liked XP and loved the look of Vista so what do I knowโ€ฆ)

[โ€“] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, they peaked at Windows for Workgroups... Bury me, Im that old lol.

[โ€“] TBi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You and your fancy workgroups! In my day we had DOS and we were happy!

[โ€“] thedruid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Basic, dos and tomcat bbs

[โ€“] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I started with DOS. Had my mind blown when I upgraded to DOS 3.

[โ€“] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago

It had classic themes available

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

DirectX 3.5 only? IIRC.

[โ€“] lightnegative@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Nah win2k pro was really, really slow compared to xp