Source: Hacker News
Article note: ...Because it was the last honest user-focused user-controlled desktop/workstation OS in the NT family? Vista was an unfinished tech demo of post-XP tech that unfortunately became a product, 8 was an abomination of misguided tablet-y interface experiments, and 10 is both burdened with the UI inconsistency from 8, and a service delivery mechanism more akin to a free razor handle that only works with vendor cartridges than a product.
The same reason 10.6/Snow Leopard was arguably the pinnacle of the Apple/NeXTStep family - it was a hyper-refined desktop OS. After about 2010 the tech industry went all-in on coercive, mobile first, continuous ~~breakage~~ delivery SaaS rent-seeking bullshit.
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