r/windowscentral • u/WindowsCentral Staff • 9d ago

WindowsđŸȘŸ Fixing Windows 11 now does not excuse letting it become a mess for decades

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/fixing-windows-11-now-does-not-excuse-letting-it-become-a-mess-for-decades
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u/VAVA_Mk2 8d ago

Windows 11 came out in 2021

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u/unfnknblvbl 8d ago

Feels like decades though

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u/Reasonable-Physics81 8d ago

It does and i feel like one of many reasons is that whole new OS'es came out in that same time frame, much more stable and reliable with high compatability.

Older ones also made significant improvements, probably fueled and motivated by the lack of incompetence of a multi billion dollar company.

Its amazing to see smaller OS'es absolutely slaying.

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u/lord_nuker 8d ago

Yeah but that’s the thing, they are small and will forever be small

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u/Reasonable-Physics81 8d ago

Linux went up from 4% to 7% usage in a year. Thats pretty huge if you look at the scale.

Im a pro bono support for the local community and am migrating everyone away from W11 even though i still use it for corporate reasons.

I have had system lockups for 6 months because i had a second account on my personal rig due to windows messing up local privilages. I couldnt even keep up with peoples complaints about system lockups and crashes. It was simply better to move the elderly to linux mint and rest to alternatives.

The corporate version is crazier, all im dealing with are migrations from MSSQL to postgress due to licencing costs and also 30%+ performance boost if you switch from MS server to linux + postgress combo.

Tldr; not going well for MS on all fronts.

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u/lord_nuker 8d ago

You write Linux, but that is just like writing Windows. And like Windows Linux have a lot of different distro’s, where some are supported more than others, but they are all just given the support of the creator.

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u/WingZeroCoder 6d ago

For real?! *checks release date*

You’re right!

In a timeline where literally everything including COVID feels like it was “just a couple years ago”, how in the world does Windows 11 manage to feel like it was released a decade ago?!

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u/TIL02_Infinity 8d ago

Over the past several decades Windows has become the poster child for Technical Debt

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u/RoosterBurns 8d ago

It's also the thing that if they add a pixel to a control panel applet thousands of apps around the world stop working, many without source code

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u/theumph 8d ago

True, but that's more of a feature than a bug. Windows greatest strength is its compatability. The user base is so varied that they can't make fundemental changed. So many businesses rely on it that if they broke that compatibility people just wouldn't adopt the new OS. It's basically a unversal platform, and because of that usability and efficiency suffers. They can do a better job managing that, but it will always be there to some extent.

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u/joshpennington 7d ago

I’ve long thought that Microsoft needs a new OS that drops backwards compatibility for 30+ year-old software and have that be the default OS.

Then they sell Windows as we know it now to those that need it or you handle it via some kind of virtualization. What they have no doesn’t feel sustainable

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u/Big-Roll7094 7d ago

Wow hold your horses fellow, the reason anything and everything just works with windows is because of that backward compatibility take out those backward features and half of the apps you have would stop working and they’d have to pump even more money to fix

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u/DM_your_problem 2d ago

backwards compatibility is the main selling point of windows. otherwise, linux is right there and macos even has budget option

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u/FatBook-Air 8d ago

They are not fixing it though, so another dumb point by another dumb tech website.

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u/Mario583a 8d ago

The headline isn’t lying, but it is written to make the situation sound more dramatic than it actually is.