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I don't know how things in the industry are now, but back in my day you didn't deploy a Microsoft product until the second service pack had been released. Trusting software to be reliable and secure was always a no no.
Yeah, computer tech used to be real dogshit back in the day. Everyone waxes poetic about Windows Xp but if we’re actually being honest, Windows 11 blows it out of the water
I'd say it's still pretty shitty, you just might not be in the user base being affected. Automatic updates are probably insulating most folks from how bad things are.
Windows XP annoyed me way less than Windows 11. Windows 7 was probably the peak, then everything went downhill.
I just remember endless frustrations with XP. Windows 7 was genuinely the first time I ever wanted to commend Microshit on a decent job on a product. Who knew that was a ‘psych!’ moment with the pulling the rug after a fucking year and introducing windows 8 or w/e
XP crashed for me much less often than 10 or 11. And it didn't try to download updates in the middle of zoom call.