“Nearly 20 years in PC retail has taught me that what people love is a machine that works”
Windows 11 has crashed into view and it’s a critical moment in the history of computing. Will it be inducted into the “Windows Hall of Fame” to join 3.1, XP and 7 or exposed in the tabloid “Hall of Shame” with ME, 8 and RT?
As a retailer, a new OS can be a delight. It drives sales as the public use the release as a justification to thrash the plastic and treat themselves to something shiny with a warranty.
As a system builder, a new OS can drive me insane. When customers take delivery of a machine loaded with the latest OS, there’s an unspoken expectation that it should be faster than their old PC. If I delve back into the archives of our business, this hasn’t always been easy to pull off. You’re one of the sharper-eyed readers and spotted the omission from our Hall of Shame, so brace yourself as I’m about to spout a heretical viewpoint: Vista wasn’t a bad operating system.
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