Why is Windows such a garbage OS?

Why is Windows such a garbage OS?

Also why is it still the most popular OS in the mainstream for over 30 years?

>muh gaemus

>too much of a brainlet to turn off one setting

You deserve it.

Because the first PC came with windows and Microsoft managed to hold on to that advantage.

>Needs to turn off botnet

Yeah nice one there, Bob.

Mainly backwards compatibility and people who don't like change

So cucks then.

>why is it still the most popular OS in the mainstream for over 30 years
Compatibility and long term support.

Each edition gets free updates from Microsoft for at minimum of ten years. Not only that, but Microsoft puts immense amounts of time making it so that programs from earlier versions of Windows can function in newer versions. Of course, Microsoft breaks compatibility a lot as well but Microsoft breaks compatibility significantly less than say Apple which does not give a shit about previous versions of their operating system. Windows 7 had XP mode and Aero Classic to handle legacy applications. You could run MS-DOS applications on Windows 95. Microsoft Windows became the wetdream of developers because Microsoft wasn't actively trying to kill compatibility, even if it meant messing up security. Microsoft further enticed developers by creating programming languages like C#, Visual Basic.NET, VBScript, J++ (dead), J# (dead), F#, and TypeScript. Microsoft created the .NET Framework which "Just works" and several really powerful IDEs with visual GUI designers. One of which is the virtually untouchable Visual Studio.

Microsoft also achieved dominance of Windows by making Windows runnable on most hardware. PowerPC? There was a version of Windows for it. ARM6? You bet. x86? Yep. Microsoft is not like Apple where it chooses what hardware it wants to have its operating system work for. Microsoft says: "Fuck it, let's make it work on everything." There are hits and misses but Microsoft does it better than anyone else.

Unironically this.
I have to make Macs work in a Windows domain environment and the home folder sync feature I set up for one user not only broke, but still runs with no interface to disable it. Shit is dumb as hell.

Good work, Nareev. 16 rupees have been deposited into your Microsoft Certified Shitposter account

>is the cancer killing Sup Forums
>keeps posting because attention is all he has left in life

>Pay for a "professional" version.
>Get a ton of ads for shitty gaems and for shitty ms products by default.
>Can't control updates, just pause for a while.

This OS is a joke.

yeah, except for all those other faggot settings you have to turn off like cortana and all the other garbage, and god awful redundant default applications that you have to manually uninstall via the powershell (like the photos app that likes to put little slideshows of your porn collection on your desktop), and even with all this you have to deal with the hobbled together clusterfuck of a UI, and so on and so forth...

>Can't control updates
The fact that you think this just shows that they've done a good job at preventing normies from disabling updates.

>he doesn't hide his photo collection
>calls a photo viewer 'redundant'
>supporting legacy software is now viewed as 'inconsistent ui' in the eyes of manchildren
impeccable work rajesh! android has served you well

>why is it still the most popular OS in the mainstream
Monopoly
>Why is Windows such a garbage OS?
Also monopoly. With no serious competition, they got complacent

>Also why is it still the most popular OS in the mainstream for over 30 years?
- Microsoft has deals with hardware companies, so most laptop and desktop computers comes bundled with their products.
- Most people uses whatever comes bundled with the hardware and i can bet a lot of them doesn't even know what is an operative system and that you can choose it. If the brand "Windows" were related to quality then WP would be the most used mobile operative system because the demand would be high.
- Microsoft has deals with schools, so people is trained from a young age to use microsoft products. For a lot of them it's a question of being a comfort zone, not even about the difficulty. I can say this because in my own experience most windows users never solve their own problems, they ask other people to solve their problems.
- Microsoft has a huge lock-in with their formats and APIs. Independently on if we can consider they products are good or bad, the fact is that they use anti-competitive measures to lock their users and developers. For example their document formats doesn't honors the "ISO standard" they supposedly issued. If they care about interoperability with competing solutions they would use the well documented version of their format. But no, they uses their dominant position to push a version of the format only they know exactly how it works (interestingly and despite this, i have gotten problems even with different versions of MSO). Most of the documents in this format are created with MSO and most people doesn't even knows about the strict version of the format, this makes their format a moving target for competitors at best. Their development tools is another good example if a lock-in, they only care about compatibility on markets where they're losing like server or mobile.

>the most popular OS in the mainstream
It's not anymore though.

Who owns a desktop these days, besides autists and corporate drones?

Nobody.

garbage in
garbage out

Don't confuse "popular" with "prevalent." Billions in government contracts buys a lot of indentured wage slaves, and gives leverage to insert propaganda into school systems at very early ages,

Well, yeah, for better or worse now the marketshare of android is the same or higher than windows' and windows phone is dead. At least is a good thing computing is not dominated by only one company anymore and at least now it's google and microsoft. If microsoft wins enough marketshare on the mobile we can kiss goodbye any possibility of open technologies like opengl and vulkan and any kind of possibility of competition from new companies.

>he installed 10
good goy
>removing options is a good thing
Shouldn't you be in the apple homosex club right now?

>removing options
Nice reading comprehension.

Are you now denying that they removed the control panel with the "disable" setting?
inb4 "but you only have to open the group policy editor and find this setting somewhere, WE MUST PROTECT THE NORMALFAGS"
You're deluded if you really believe that MS cares about their image a bit, if they would they wouldn't deliver this unstable piece of shit to paying customers
And if you believe that milking people who don't know better is in any way ethic, then you're also a retard. Enjoy shilling a product that makes a shitty multinational company even more money

You answered your own question.

what usually happens whenever one big company gets a monopoly on something. no incentive to actually improve their product/service, quality plummets and the army of marketing monkeys running the show sit around spitballing even more ways to nickle and dime their customers who they know they have over a barrel

If I send you a few bucks, will you stop shilling this trash?

Ya, basically this.

>Can't form logical argument
>Results to name calling

It sucks because they continue to bend over backwards for backward compatibility. “Oh, you’ve got an old NIC manufactured in Soviet-Era Azerbaijan? Sure you can put the driver in Ring 0.”

Also, they’ve never been good at innovation. Gates had one BRILLIANT idea: software is worth more than hardware. After that, anything “new” was usually jacked from a smaller company that they stomped out. Sadly, every time they do try something new, with the exception of the XBox, it’s just sucks and pisses people off (tile view, no start button, the Zune, windows phone, etc etc etc).

They’re still in business because they a large install base in large enterprises. Big companies don’t like to overhaul all their IT. They’ve long since stopped being relevant to regular people, the desktop is decling, but the enterprise will keep Redmond in business for a long time to come.

Sure
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How many little starving children does your family have, Pajeeet? And how many toilets?

I live with my wife's son Muhammad, we have a portable toilet given to us by Microsoft but we don't use it.

It came with MS-DOS... nevertheless the theory is sound

>Who owns a desktop these days, besides autists and corporate drones?
78% of US households

You’re forgetting DR-DOS, PC-DOS, Compaq-DOS, and a few others.

They didn’t get a solid grip until Excel and Word beat out Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect.

Having installed win10 on a machine designed to run windows 7, I expected that it would run 10 even better. Instead it's nearly unusable.

I am about to install Linux on it again because windows is so fucking shitty

only other viable OS is OSX but apple would rather cripple anyone who tries to install that on a non mac.

I'm still on Windows 7 Ultimate. Is there any reason whatsoever for me to worry about having to change it in the next several years?
I hope not. Literally none of my software is paid for and I use it for work.

Largely because it would ruin the advantage they do have.
You can still pretty easily run it on non-official systems.

>Literally none of my software is paid for
>and I use it for work.
You use software for work... and they don't pay for it? What?

No I work using software I haven't paid for. From home. It's not that big a deal at the moment but I'll probably need to start addressing the issue at some point.

...

I mean, if you're actually getting paid and legitimately do use it for work exclusively I really don't see why you can't tax writeoff. Or if working under someone else, they should be paying for it.

Funny because that picture was made in gimp

Yeah thats the plan. Just a case of not having the opportunity these last couple of years.

Windows has never really had proper competition in the desktop OS market.

macOS, historically, has been the only commercial desktop OS that competes with Windows...but that's tied to hardware and shit and has below 10% market share.

>over 30 years