• kalleboo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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)

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      all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7

      The fuck?? Vista predates Win7, that sentence makes no sense

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        3 days ago

        the work (to trim all the Vista bloat) that had started with Windows 7

        Could be phrased better but it makes sense to me

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        You’re getting downdooted, but I was stuck on rereading that nonsensical sentence, as well, and I’m glad it was clarified.