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Windows 8 was where Microsoft went all-in on optimizing Windows to run on low-power tablets to compete with the iPad. It's mostly remembered for the terrible tablet-first full-screen "start menu", but also continued the work to trim away all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7 (where the motivation was to make it work on netbooks so they could finally stop shipping XP)
The fuck?? Vista predates Win7, that sentence makes no sense
Windows 7 was based on Vista, and started the job of trimming away Vista's bloat, which 8 continued.
Aha, well it's a very ambiguous phrasing that is used.
Ambiguous, yes; very ambiguous, though, sounds like you're preemptively dodging any blame for misreading :P
Could be phrased better but it makes sense to me
You're getting downdooted, but I was stuck on rereading that nonsensical sentence, as well, and I'm glad it was clarified.