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For experienced IT veterans—and PC enthusiasts—there is a common wisdom about the latency between when a version of Windows is released, and when those releases become reliable. Windows XP is the primary example of this, as the original release of XP lacked a variety of important security protections—a rebuilt firewall enabled by default, support for NX bit, and finally disabling the Windows Messenger service abused by spammers, were added in Service Pack 2, three years and a day after XP was first released.
And so, that leaves us with our present circumstances with Windows 10. Roughly seven weeks ago—on May 21—Version 1903 (or 19H1), otherwise known as the May 2019 Update, was released. This marks three years, nine months, and 22 days since the initial release of Windows 10. Reception has been politely positive, though problems with the launch have prompted Microsoft to require users to remove USB storage devices or SD cards before upgrading; likewise, the update was blocked on the Surface Book 2 because a driver problem renders it incapable of seeing the NVIDIA GPU in the base of the high-end model.
Given the positioning of Windows 10 as being essentially the last version of Windows (similar to the way Mac OS X has been around since 2001), it is potentially unwise to declare this exact point in time "as good as it gets." Microsoft's track record is likely to back up this claim, though—at best, Microsoft can deliver iterative changes on top of Windows 10, but the biannual release cadence does not lend itself to massive changes, and further iterative changes are not going to convince the skeptics. If you don't like Windows 10 now, you're not going to like it in the future.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-three-years-later-why-this-is-as-good-as-it-gets/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 16 2019, @10:10PM (3 children)
Or Mac. Seriously, who thinks eating Bill Gates' shit can be anything close to "how good it can get"?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 16 2019, @10:33PM (1 child)
I was gifted an iPad last Christmas. I spent 4 days trying to figure out how to use it, hitting roadblocks with sluggish updates and user account often not being found. It now sits next to the unused Win10 PC. I started with a TRS-80/basic, went to DOS, Win3.1, 95, 98, XP, 7, skipped 8, and finally 10. I keep Windows around for gaming and have used Linux for everything else since WinXP came out. Apple is too gay of an operating system.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday July 17 2019, @03:45PM
See, everyone mind blocks Vista and ME, because of the horror that they were. Also, 2000 was mostly enterprise / server stuff. Apple isn't "gay", it's priced for people who like to burn money. Okay maybe that makes it gay, but it's definitely targeted at people with money. I've had occasion to use an AppleII when it came out, and various Apple computers since, but I've never been able to justify the expense on my own. Not that I want to be stuck in their walled garden anyway.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @12:16AM
Keep in mind the three year rule is basically true for OS X too. It hit its peak in the mid-2000's, and has been going downhill ever since. Especially lately as Apple keeps on making it more and more like iOS.