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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > Microsoft has no longer given me the "option" of upgrading--FUCK YOU BILL!!
 
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Sep 26, 2005

Applewhite posted:

Windows 7 was the perfect windows they finally got it exactly right and then realized no one would ever need to buy their product again. A product you only need to buy once is bad for business.
Windows 98 2nd edition compiled with the /opt:win98 switch on all dependencies from the get-go basically would have been as good for conventional desktop application loading and responsiveness as everyone getting modern SSDs in 1999 (as opposed to their 20% adoption rate, today). There is 0% likelihood that MS software engineers were unaware of this. The consequences of this would have been marginally better adoption of Win 98 2nd and abysmal adoption of every successive version of Windows that can't come close to that level of improvement. Limiting increments of improvement really is key.

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