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Well recall is why they're so focused on security now. They want to host every detail of your life. They can't do that now because their platform is a tire fire.
Always has been
Eh.....Windows 3.1, 95, 98SE, XP, and 7 were all pretty great.
They HAVE released some hot trash. I don't even remember Vista. I just remember it's trash.
From a user interface perspective, they were okay, perhaps because by the time people got to XP they'd had a decade of a consistent interface and were just used to its quirks.
From a security context they were not ok. Not ok at all.
I genuinely don't know if I left my firewall on or off the last time I fiddled with it, on my Windows 7 machine.
That was like 10 years ago. It's still my daily use pc. Zero antivirus. Just firefox which was installed 10 years ago. And ad block orgin which was also installed 10 years ago but updated over the years.
Oddly enough, the only website I have issue with is lemmy.
There's security people retching around the world and they're not sure why.
Was it 95 that you could hit cancel at the log in screen and it would let you skip putting in a password?
Sure it looked pretty, but security was a disaster.
Oh, lemmy has cakes. Happy cake day.
That password was only for network shares/NT domains. 95 didn't have any concept of users, like DOS.
In 98 you could use the accessibility settings in the login page to bypass account password too!
I just pressed cancel. Who needs network shares.
On XP you could start the On Screen Keyboard, open the help for that and then open the explorer by browsing for a different help file.
MS has a history of security first.
Nope, always garbage. It did get worse with vista and 11 though
Happy cake day!