
They could’ve reverted more changes, but they were stubborn and did not. The outrage did not do anything, all they did was in 8.1 was to return the start button.

The fact that they forced a touch UI on a predominantly non-touch userbase is peak stupidity, I don’t even know how else to describe it. They may have been great for touch devices, but for mouse and keyboard devices, there should have been a fallback UI layout. The start screen as a replacement of the start menu and all the hidden gestures from the edge of the screen were also stupid. It’s a behavior akin to some child throwing a tantrum. It was a very ignorant and uninformed decision, because not even a novice software developer would make something so blatantly stupid. They launched it without a start menu button. When I tried to install Windows 7, the installation failed midway with an error that my hardware doesn’t support Windows Thornton,

My computer has too new hardware and I can’t install Windows 7, oldest I can install is Windows 10. If people want to use Windows 7, because they enjoy it, you can’t judge them. – if you are stupid enough to give Edge a chance, first time you launch it, it soft-locks your whole screen and bombards you with ads and things you have to agree with, if you don’t want to agree to that, you have to call Task Manager and kill the process from there – some software, like Edge, Cortana, Defender act like malware – you uninstall them, they automatically get reinstalled with updates – a lot of settings turn on automatically even if you turn them off

– there is no simple way to set default programs for formats Windows 11 is neither an upgrade nor a downgrade to Windows 10, but definitely a downgrade compared to Windows 7.

Windows 10 was an upgrade from Windows 8, but still a downgrade compared to Windows 7. Windows 8 was a downgrade from Windows 7. You can’t deny that Windows 7 was the last good version of Windows.
