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I remember the windows XP days when the operating system was just that, and not a system designed to track the user and extract as much value/money out of them as possible. It was simple enough that even my dad could use it, if I have to get my dad to use his laptop now he can barely even comprehend the start menu, and thus he mostly just sticks to his phone, I for one am moving to Linux soon as I backup all my files and never dealing with this shit again
I procrastinated doing this for years, then finally set up a NAS a few months ago and backed everything up so that I could make the switch. It was worth it.
Phones have already become the mainstream computer, Microsoft is accelerating that trend.
Why would they, they don't have a mobile OS platform, I guess they make enough money now from enterprise services other than the core OS that they don't care much about the OS anymore at least not on the individual consumer level.
Microsoft is accelerating that trend with incompetence and greed, not as a strategy.
XP phoned home. Win2K was closer to the pinnacle of Windows development.