On Windows Vista and every subsequent version of Windows, if I search for a file and include the entire C:\ drive, I might very well have time to make tea or a sandwich while the search results come in. On Windows XP, using the search dialog with the animated dog, I can search the entire C:\ drive and expect it to be done in a minute or two, if not in seconds.
It can’t just be nostalgia; I can replicate these results on period-accurate hardware today. What changed with Vista to make file searching so much slower, even with indexing enabled?
Windows sucks more at every new release. Management issues. Prefer developing new shitty features instead of cleaning the bloat. Anything is possible.
10 was better than 8 IMO
the ui was dogshit but it was extremely lightweight and fast on my potato with 512mb ram and 60gb ide hdd.
8 was designed terribly, but the engineering was unbelievably good. It was more streamlined and stable than it had ever been, it was just skinned by a tablet-obsessed moron.
10 was a huge step back in technical quality, but it undid a lot of the stupid mistakes on the front-end.
(and they won’t even talk about 9. they act like it doesn’t exist!)
8 I believe was the last in their “tick tock” strategy…
IE “ticks” were the ones where they threw a bunch of stuff at the wall to see what sticks, basically putting users as paying beta testers.
“Tocks” were when they’d basically look at the piles of complaints from their ticks, try and fix as many as they could, and impliment some of the small features people wanted.
Ticks: Win 95, Win ME + 2000, Vista, Windows 8.
Tocks: Win 3.1, Win 98, Win XP, Windows 7, "sorta windows 10, hard to really say that model was made to be the start of more or less a auto upgrading by default as the new normal)