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Originally Posted by sh3dow
I agree with chants, and Windows after 7 doesn't makes any sense to be honest.
8, 8.1, 10 and 11 doesn't bring anything useful to the table.
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Wouldn't say that they didn't bring
anything useful at all. Just that the negatives generally outweighed the positives for most people.
Windows 8 / 8.1:
- New Features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8
Windows 10:
- New Features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10
I'd say both Windows 8.1 and 10 have had excellent new features and changes/upgrades that made them great operating systems, but they were shadowed by the extremely poor choices and changes that Microsoft also bundled into each OS.
Windows 8 and 8.1 biggest change that pushed people away was the start menu. Trying to force the 'Metro Tiles' onto desktop users was an extremely stupid move and wasn't done with any real good-faith reason behind it. It was solely to try to save their failing mobile phone marketshare with Windows Phone 7 and newer. The phones were a massive failure and their last attempt to save it was force that ecosystem onto every device to try to make one consistent experience. (Which obviously failed and wasn't at all what desktop users wanted.)
Windows 10 tried to win back people with a older style Start Menu but still kept the live tiles no one wanted. But the biggest reasons people hated Windows 10 instead were the forced telemetry, forced Cortona, forced updates and the horrible redo of Windows Search that tried to bring in web searching that just completely broke search altogether. Otherwise Win 10 is a very solid operating system.
In each situation, you can 'fix' the operating system and get it back to where you'd want it with some tweaks, modding, and extra work. I personally use Windows 10 mostly now and love it. I just take the extra time when first reinstalling to lock down the OS, remove all the garbage I don't want, replace the Search, and get things setup how I want. I did the same with Windows 8.1 when I was using that as my main OS of choice too.