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@mina7601Oh yes I like those 2 improvements very much. The pink around the text cursor indicator and being able to enlarge the cursor. They even ship some SVG mouse cursors by default. But the icon/bitmap-based get pixelated when enlarged to even 2x.

@mina7601 Interesting. I tried it out. Anything it can do extra or better than a typical virtual machine can't? I mean any advantages of it over a VM?

For me, XP was the last true desktop but I understand your sentiment. 7 was a fine OS except for a bastardized File Explorer, Taskbar and Start that were fixed with Classic Shell and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.

The one thing I miss from IE is the RSS feed sidebar. I wish Edgium or Chrome had it, although I found a nice web extension as an alternative: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-feed-reader/pnjaodmkngahhkoihejjehlcdlnohgmp

Of course it is so much more than just the GUI. In some technical aspects, it is even superior to Windows. But it is not for me as GUI and usability/ease of use hold the top spot for me and Windows delivers that in addition to unprecedented compatibility.

Yes I disable all updates. If I feel to need to go to a recent/supported version, I do manual upgrade then disable updates again. This strategy has worked so far to keep my system very stable.

Thankfully I was born in 1984 and was 10-11 years old when the revolutionary Windows 95 arrived. Experienced the peak glory of Windows in my youth - 3.0, 95, NT4, 98, 98 SE, 2000, Me, the legendary XP, Vista, 7, 8.1. You can experience the classic versions in a Virtual Machine. If you want to know anything, feel free to ask me privately.

The web is pretty much unusable (horrible design) and slow due to excessive (ab)use of JavaScript. Disabling JS breaks a huge number of sites unlike Web 1.0 days. Awful comment systems like Disqus, the excessive use of JS on YouTube are some examples that come to mind.

Besides uBlock Origin, I can recommend this addon to reduce pop-ups on the web: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/popupoff-popup-and-overla/ifnkdbpmgkdbfklnbfidaackdenlmhgh

Yes they think wifi=internet and have no concept of LAN 😂 I know some id*** who recharge their mobile data when their monthly broadband expires, then when it doesn't work, they charge their broadband 😂😂

Stupid JavaScript is to blame for the awful web experience. Facebook, Twitter, all the dozens of tech news sites, any sites which use s*** like Disqus - they're all so slow and annoying to navigate.

The tech industry and the web are based on a template. A few people innovate and the rest of them are apes - they copy it.

Gamers are id*** with a fanatical craze for the latest DirectX and latest everything to make themselves feel that they own the most cutting edge hardware.

I am not part of the rat race. I strongly oppose "upgrading" for the sake of it.  I evaluate every release extremely thoroughly and I am happily running Windows XP - the last OS where everything from previous releases for the most part was included without any major break in compatibility. In fact I inspect features and the value of "upgrading" so thoroughly that I wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7 and worked with Ivo Beltchev to create Classic Shell.
http://xpwasmyidea.blogspot.com/2011/09/features-removed-in-windows-8.html

On my laptop, I run Windows 8.1 because it has:
- TRIM for the PCIe M.2 SSD that's on the laptop (Windows 7 only supports SATA TRIM)
- Windows 8.1 works with well the "PreferExternalManifest" Registry setting which I need to set to fix the DPI scaling of certain apps on that high resolution, high DPI display. (More details here: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-fix-apps-that-look-small-on-high-dpi-and-high-resolution-displays/) On Windows 7, it breaks the Network icon.
- The DPI scaling engine in Windows 8.1 loads earlier at startup to scale everything correctly whereas on Windows 7 it doesn't scale apps that run at startup
- The awfulness of the Windows 8 UI and regressions and lack of customizability can be fixed by using third party apps like Classic Shell, 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, OldNewExplorer, FileSearchEX, Everything Search, Media Player Classic Home Cinema, PerigeeCopy, VistaSwitcher and putting back Gadgets, classic games and the old superior Task Manager.
- Much improved DISM and cleanup of superseded updates

I am only evaluating Windows 10. I have NO intention of moving to it for the next 100 years. It is the worst piece of garbage to ever ship from Redmond.

+1. XP was the best.

Yeah Brazil fans were crying! Germany might win against Netherlands/Argentina!

I already bought. My outrage with MS is beyond spite. My judgement has been made and they need to punished!

I keep thinking it's a PM I've got.

Julie Green, Jensen Harris, Antoine Leblond, Ballmer all deserve to go to hell for torture of billions.

Julie Green, Jensen Harris, Antoine Leblond, Ballmer all deserve to go to hell for torture of billions.

Yeah. I miss everything too. They even removed the Merge or delete network locations dialog.

It's not as simple as that. When your hardware breaks down, and drivers aren't available for your old OS, you are forced to use the new one.

Exactly. I cannot tolerate it either. Windows 7 is a sane proper desktop OS. For a tablet, I can understand but even then the Metro design is ugly. For computers, the desktop side of Windows 8 is a REGRESSION. There aren't any improvements, there are only huge steps back,

I'm going to tweet this.

It's your experimental server?

Why isn't that Railway suing Apple?

They add some features and in case of Windows 8, they remove just as many useful features. BASTARDS.