> It was just a rational decision. Microsoft's biggest paying customers are businesses.
> A lot of businesses skipped Vista entirely, going straight from XP to 7. They dropped
> the product that was unprofitable to support.
>
> > Unsurprisingly, MAME 0.205 is working here, even on my XP machines. Of course, with
> > such old systems I had to tweak the default mame.ini settings otherwise it drops
> back
> > to GDI which does no good to anyone.
>
There were actually a fair few that upgraded, I think it's another thing that contributed towards it being hated at the time.
Vista had a bug where the desktop clock would just stop updating, it would be stuck at a time forever until you killed task manager and restarted. This wasn't even an infrequent bug, it happened often.
I was working in an office for a while where every machine was on Vista, and *without fail* at least once a day somebody would be furious that they'd missed their lunch break because the clock on the PC had frozen, and they'd been using that for timekeeping. Got to the point where everybody was just setting lunch break alarms on their phones instead. I think it was eventually fixed, but by that time everybody had abandoned the OS anyway.
Causing staff to miss lunch breaks was a surefire way to get your OS to be hated.
(Win 10 is hated by staff for the new solitaire etc. which is 100x less discrete than the old ones and generates network traffic due to the advertising; I'm sure employers like it, but employees sure don't, although the fact that those games always got left in workplace installs anyway suggests maybe some management see they had value in terms of stress relief / staff morale)
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