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Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Windows 7 was arguably the last OS they ever made.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 17 hours ago

Windows 10 arguably became passable for stability about 3 years after release... but you still had to cut out the advertising bloat, spyware, and all which undermined any gains of stability because that shit was just fucking annoying.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

This line of thought goes all the way back to NT, and even then IBM would have some comments.

DOS was the last one they built, and they made a really decent GUI for it before they switched to NT.

[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't 7 just an visually updated NT.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 7 hours ago

everything after w2k is NT. by kernel version, its

  • NT4: 4.0
  • 2000: 5.0
  • XP: 5.1
  • Vista: 6.0
  • 7: 6.1
  • 8: 6.2
  • 8.1: 6.3
  • 10: 10.0

haven't checked 11 but i bet you they bumped the major again.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And they still haven't even finished making PowerShell anywhere near as functional as Bash or any other Linux shell environment.

I don't outright hate PowerShell but it's clearly a hacky afterthought after realizing Linux was eating their lunch in the server space via quick rollouts to thousands of computers at once through Bash scripting.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I find PS pretty great. Probably the best improvement to Windows since going 32-bit.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 16 hours ago

For sure, it's a vast improvement, but there's still so much you can't do with it.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 17 hours ago

wasn't advertised as such though