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   Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 16:41:59 JST Pleroma-tan

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   I only know this because I had(?) pictures of the profile. I would not remember small details like that otherwise :niggaskull:
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     reeeeeelman (realman543@annihilation.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 16:48:52 JST reeeeeelman

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     @kirby 7 was the best windows release since 95
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 16:51:09 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @realman543 95 was fine I guess. 7 was just vista with a coat of paint. Everyone had mostly decent hardware by 2009 so it was fine to release 7 at that point. If vista was released a bit later, it probably would've been a hit too
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 17:16:00 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     @kirby
     Their real mistake was messing with hardware certification — typical Microsoft mind game of the time, but that time it backfired. AFAIR there were two grades: computers that were supposed to run Vista well, and those that barely met the minimum requirements — normal people got confused and couldn't distinguish the two, they bought laptops with a shiny sticker at a price that seemed very attractive only to find out how awfully it runs. And of course they were blaming Vista for it.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 17:18:07 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @m0xEE @realman543 yeah MS was partly to blame too for that, pressuring oems and moving the goal posts for "runs windows vista" was not a good idea