The part that gets to me about Windows 11 is how Microsoft claimed that Windows 10 would be the last Windows OS.
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It only took them 6 years to go back on it
Apple tried this shit in the 90s. I was working in a computer graphics place, the HNIC, and half the shop was Macs, the other 45% were SGI. Being a customer large enough that we could pick up the phone and call Apple and bitch at them if something went wrong with the hardware, or OS, we had a "special" relationship with them. One fine day in...I wanna say it was around '92 or so, they came in with a dog and pony show talking about how OS 7 would have no further versions, it'd be all updates, this was the way of the future, just keep patching the OS over and over, but eventually Taligent/Pink was going to be where Apple was going, etc., the then-new Power arch was coming Any Day Now(TM) so Mac OS would only get incremental updates, forevermore, amen, and the new OS for the new arch would be the way forward.
Except that didn't work, and 7 wound up as a choked, bloated mess. Not, mind you, that 8 or 9 were much better, but at least Apple had the guts at that time to admit that they'd screwed up and tried major revisions again, and not that "patch and add incremental features" bullshit.
Oh, and as an aside that doesn't have anything to do with this, at that time (very early 1990s) the SGI guys were so insufferably smug about their position in enterprise computing, but they had every right to be. They were just mismanaged and couldn't predict how utterly base consumer level graphics that at that time only their workstations could do, would become.
Anyway, back to topic. When Apple tried the "forever patch" OS, it was stupid, and I knew Win10 would be equally stupid.
Of course, Apple moved on and advanced their OS, Microsoft...shit, other than sliding a probe into every orifice of your body, I don't know what they're doing. Each new iteration of Windows used to do something new until 7, then aside from fucking with the UI and artificially borking DirectX compatibility, they haven't innovated at all.
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