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As well as every version of every OS ever. Windows 98 was the best, Windows XP sucked with it's Fisher Price UI. Then Vista/7 came around and the outcry of "if you want the latest DirectX, you have to upgrade". And then Windows XP was discontinued to much wailing and gnashing of teeth, because XP was the best. Then 8/10 came out and everything was terrible and we're just going to stick to Windows 7 because it's the best.

To many techies, version n-1 is the best thing ever created, until version n+1 comes out and the "best ever" shifts up one revision.



Cherry-picked anecdotes are worthless.

Few if any people glorified Panther when Tiger came out, or Leopard when Snow Leopard came out, or Win3.11 when Win95 came out, or Win95 when Win98 came out, or WinME when WinXP came out, or Vista when Win7 came out.

Stop dismissing legitimate complaints just because you worship "new and shiny"


>Stop dismissing legitimate complaints just because you worship "new and shiny"

Yeah, right after you stop dismissing important security updates as "new and shiny".


No, he’s right. Whilst there was a bit of criticism of Windows XP, most people were fine with it and it was widely praised. Same with Windows 98. In fact, Windows ME, Windows Vista and Windows 8 were widely criticised when they came out for good reasons, and Windows 7 and Windows 10 were widely praised.


> Whilst there was a bit of criticism of Windows XP, most people were fine with it and it was widely praised.

It didn't start out that way. It was heavily criticized in the first instance. Certainly until SP1 was released.




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