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  • XP was Re: Post Office. Another smoking gun

    From billy bookcase@billy@anon.com to uk.net.news.moderation on Wed Jan 7 19:54:47 2026
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    "Martin Harran" <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote in message news:2umslk9kkn213n8ddevk03gnm61c8457e5@4ax.com...

    XP was a grand system. Much of what has been introduced since is MS developers thinking they know better than Users what those Users
    really want and need. Getting rid of OE, a perfectly good mail and
    Usenet application is just one example of that.

    I put a lot of work into setting up Windows in a way that suits me and
    the applications I use; it really pisses me off when they introduce a
    new or updated "feature" that breaks my existing setup or makes
    something that was easy to use much harder for no benefit.

    Apparently from MS's point of view with windows 10 they needed to
    priorised touch screens and tablets over "tradiutional" desktop
    GIU's. As that's the only way they could generate sufficient
    new business.

    While from a hardware perspective, just as so long as you can avoid
    dodgy capacitors, apprarently hardware can last for decades.

    But other than that, there seems to be a general rule that if
    you ever find anything that's really any good, from cars, to shoes
    to clothes or food or just general stuff, it's a pound to a penny
    they'll soon find a way of f*cking it up.


    bb



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