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"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I recall at one point Windows 10 was going to be the last version of the OS and they would just maintain that. I'm wondering if they said that to get the last of the Windows 7 and XP users to finally move to 10?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Windows 11 is kind of technically still just Windows 10 under the hood.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And on the hood too. They realy didn't change that much. Made a few things "simpler" aka worse and that's it

[–] words_number 5 points 10 months ago

Hahaha so true

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Windows was still DOS under the hood for a long time. Win 98 was Win 95. Win 8 was Win 7. This is nothing new for MS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That was never the company's official stance. One (non-spokesperson) employee said it once, and people ran with it.