| > There have been no objective improvements since Windows 7 that I can think of I think this is pretty rude to the many people who have contributed to Windows in the years gone by. I won't argue that there hasn't been some crappy things added or on the advantages/disadvantages of later Windows versions but there have been plenty of things added since Windows 7. Some I can think off just off the top of my head * Credential Guard - protection of secrets in the lsass process even from kernel access * gMSA support - Windows 7 could only use standalone MSA accounts which weren't as useful * Windows LAPS - now supports encryption and is builtin to the OS * Schannel improvements - newer cipher suites and TLS protocols (cipher suites in Win 7 are right at the edge of what people might support these days) * SMB 3 - encryption, compression, better integrity/mitm/downgrade protection over SMB 2 * WSL * Windows Sandbox * Windows Terminal - including ConPTY support in the underlying APIs There's plenty more out there but these are pretty important features for me to have on Windows. Granted some only make sense in a more corporate/domain environment but not all of them. |
I just want the window borders easy to grab on a high resolution and a sensitive mouse, and no latency when I activate a program in the task bar. I want no ads in the start menu and no telemetry. I want an operating system doing work in the background, and not an anonymous entity called "we":
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Re-reading your list of improvements it doesn't impress me either for a decade of work. And I don't think people in this thread are particularly 'rude', i.e. they're not expressing what they really think about Windows 10+ ...