• PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    MSDOS, still with us for almost 30 years, that said I dont’ really acknowledge a difference between Win10 and Win11. They seem like the same OS to me. The jump from Win311->95->XP was pretty huge and XP -> 7 was fairly significant. But Win7->10->11 seems almost like a service pack.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah windows 11 had no reason to come out when it did. It’d make more sense to come out now or next year. I think they did it to try to capitalize on all the people buying new PCs when working from home during COVID

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Windows 10 released in 2015. Windows 11 released in 2021. It’s pretty much in line with other release cycles for Windows Desktop OS releases.

        • XP -> Vista - was about 6 years
        • Vista -> 7 - Was about 2 (But everyone sane basically skipped Vista)
        • 7-> 8 - Was 3 years, with a fourth year to get to 8.1.
        • 8 -> 10 - Was about 3 years.

        If you only look at the releases which mattered, XP -> 7 was 8 years and 7 -> 10 was 6. So, it seems like Microsoft kinda accepted reality this time around and we didn’t get some sort of asinine Windows Mojave shenanigans trying to polish a turd. That said, I’m still running 10 on my main system and my experiences with 11 are making me consider an upgrade path to Linux when Win10 goes EoL.