vinifera

XP already progressed toward .net and sxs with some shitty backdooring server 2003 is worse as it already had .net inside and if you installed office xp or 2003 you are greeted with its own backdoor that recorded ALL of your keys and mouse clicks and its positions without your approval, this is what they used to create Ribbon office

anything above 2000 is malware unfortunately we are forced by stupid HW to use next level NT's

I'm comparing soft vs hw at THAT time not now

that fiasco over metro crap fail is actually good news means someone will again get fired on top of MS new "strategy" will be formed more people will be pissed off and at the end win32 will win

there should be 3rd button saying "go fuck yourself already"

actually if you track the whole story with longhorn you would understand why vista sucked so much but lets go down the memory lane shall we, bit short but you'll get the idea XP stops development at build # 2542 and jumps as final 2600 but Server 2003 (whistler server) and XP (whistler) tracked each other with build compiles up until 2500 here they split into 2 teams XP -> XP client, follows path from 2500 to 2542(2600) (xpclient) where Server gets 1000 jump, where 2500 becomes 3500, and goes forward toward 3790 (dnserv) MS uses latest code to compile their next OS, which was longhorn which was at the time Server 2003 RC this happened somewhere at the 355x builds, this is the earliest stage where prototyping in Macromedia Flash Director was DONE builds 36xx were already stage where OS was compiled, this was early year 2002 longhorn itself (if you track leaked PDF antitrust docs) supposed to be Minor version of OS, they even called it XP+1 while "blackcomb" that wasn't even being in progress, supposed to be after longhorn and be Major version of OS long story short, longhorn gained many features along the way that blackcomb supposed to have, their code became messy so they rebooted the project with then fresh codebase of Server 2003 SP1 RC, they decomponentised it, made it more flexible and only main features of longhorn (minus 3D file view and WinFS database layer) was stiffed into Vista - but my main point is, if they didn't play with longhorn so much it wouldn't be as you say released so early (meaning late) as longhorn already had DWM/Aero & Sidebar, working just fine in mid 2004, and all you needed was Radeon 9550 or Geforce 5x to use Aero with all magic 3D effects, DirectX 9L (10) was done then, LDDM drivers were adopted, so the only thing they had missing was fast search WIM installation was done year before, but it still sucked as it still sucks, but what the hell ... RAM also wasn't the issue as it consumed a little bit more than XP - so there you go, if they didn't play and screwed it up, you'd had vista by late 2004 DONE - but since it got reset and there was huge gap between XP and Vista, naturally HW manufacturers didn't rush nothing and why should they, world running PC's had all XP for freaking 8 years and then BAM !!! you got yourself new OS that had totally different approach in mind for future use, and not present so it failed, and by the time all HW was adopted to its needs you got yourself win "7" so basically if they sticked to the plan on 2-3 yearly OS release there wouldn't be problems hardware would adept step by step, this way it was major jump and they weren't ready lets not forget that after reset of longhorn, MS had to rush alot not to lose the race with Apple (which they did and still do) so yeah you get unpolished half broken OS that was only visually appealing sure with SP2 its better but why bother when you have win "7" SP1

"7" has same bug but at least I know its settings are not registry tied but to %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\...s*** inside or %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\...s*** inside or %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\...s*** inside whenever i purge some contents from those paths via cmd script all folder "icons" lose their last settings

haha "already" this was predicted few years ago and as always your problem "would be solved" by BUYING NEW stuff, that you DON'T NEED but that is nowdays life cars get 2 year warranty then bye bye, fixing is expencier than new one and nobody will buy out broken one mobile phones, warranty 1.5 year, after that they don't exist on market, literarly you can go f*** yourself as there is no replacement so yeah buy new model laptops - same s*** PC's - soon will follow same trend - exactly coz of that new model of deployment software vs hardware - I can't run Skype 6 or 7 on my older XP machine as it refuses to connect - gee guess why and whos controling it but geewizz version 5, 4, 3 work - why ? - theres no SYSTEM CHECK

you don't have to even like aero, any other non transparent skin does its job

worse files (trash) will just accumulate within system registry will become Hell ++ and nobody will have control over any forced ads

if i'm not mistaken they already tried with winblows8 this online major update and it failed miserably so saying that winblows 10 will be last version is hilarious, you never know what will go wrong in 6 months after they release that thing and they change they mind its all cat and mouse play beside they already proven that they can't deliver "technology update" without breaking machines so again someone will be stuck at 10, someone at 10.1, someone at 10.2 and we are back again to pile of shit

to me vista sucks in 3 main aspects 1. file manager is clunky, something win7 corrected 2. taskbar is useless, again something that win7 improved alot 3. if you enable UAC and prefetch and indexing, you're trashing your PC lets not forget SxS hell

porting of dx10 on xp is a crap as xp can't use it at all it was all done via Alky and nobody ever proved they managed to run a game to USE it dx10 is very tied to MIL and DWM, something that XP doesn't have - for 12 on win7 it could be much easier I think someone needs to first see what dependency checks does it make before installation

it still has its own annoyances even with SP2 that they refuse to fix since it would mean code change hence win7 SP1 is preferred over vista then again you can have all from both worlds with build 6608

classic shell, or what you call classic look, is present in ALL win32, 95 to "10" if you ditch uxtheme and dwm, and services related to them, system reverts to CLASSIC common controls and rendering which is classic shell sure due to stupid ribbon and whatnot some things will look buggy in Direct2D drawing (probably coz of MIL & DWM disabled) just look at it this way: SKINS are exactly that, a bunch of images ONTOP of CLASSIC controls it is just that developers removed abilities for user to forcefully disables DWM but some programs do ignore it: heres my example from vista days:

just look at that how stupid humans became when retarded thing like new icons are prime news and thing to be excited for WHAT WAS WRONG WITH VISTA ONES IN 1ST PLACE YOU IDIOTS ???? they didn't they ran word 95 on winblows 10 and shot themself in foot showing that classic shell is there yet they deny it all the time since vista

if only apple putters were cheap.... i can't stand how dumbing down NT is going

otter opens it in 1.5 secs

they do slow transition to .net/wpf apps so they can get rid of win32 over time completely but because cpu's are now multicore, nobody cares about unoptimized app's and stupid .net will take dominance in near future, probably because it will be more portable but its non native compile and stupid a** trash collector aka JIT makes it piece of shit

dear "god" .... help us malware detected

UAC sucks ballz

XP is tweaked 2000 with better gaming support just as "7" is tweaked Vista just as "10" is tweaked "8"

I wouldn't be surprised if they cut off support for java and flash plugins but keep for their silverlight

so use irfan view like normal ppl do