True. With the way Microsoft is going I would be surprise if not another company develops a good OS. Honestly it would be the best thing for Windows to have competition, Apple does not count since it is so different.

Maybe these trade wars might produce a need

Boring Jobs are better jobs is correct. Moar glamor = more stress
Popp telling the 15 year old kid to get his butt moving and make something of himself, complete with kickboxing redemption story, it’s the best Popp video I’ve watched ever.

Also, a nerd joke:

Q: What do a PC and an air conditioner have in common?
A: Both of them stop working when you open windows.

Consumers rejected Vista because it ran like crap on the average PC of the day and annoyed users with the aggressive UAC, which jockeys with Clippy and forced Win 8 Metro for the most annoying and useless Microsoft feature.

7 is Vista on hardware it can handle and with the most annoying stuff toned down.

8 was Microsoft’s desperate and failed attempt to stay relevant in mobile by forcing the entire computing ecosystem to adopt their mobile OS (h/t to Charlie Demerjian). It not only tanked Windows but sales of PCs across the board.

Windows 10 was “free” because Microsoft began aggressively tracking everything you do with it to both serve ads and sell that data. The age-old wisdom of “if the product is free, then YOU are the product” applies. I resisted for an incredibly long time, but I use my PC so infrequently these days that I don’t care anymore (plus I’ve disabled a lot of the most egregious stuff through registry hacks).

Windows is like the Star Trek movies – odd releases suck, even releases are good:

1.0/2.0 – sucked
3.0 – pretty good
95 – sucked
98 – pretty good
ME – sucked
NT/2000/XP – pretty good
Vista – sucked
7 – pretty good
8 – sucked
10 – pretty good except for the built-in spyware
11 – ?