Windows used to work. There were clear-cut things the computer did when you told it to do them. It was easy to see what version of the operating system you had, easy to move and organize files, easy to deal with various programs.
But in the name of making things easy for people who can't be bothered to figure out how to name files and create folders, Windows has become an opaque mess.
Why does every player in every industry fall over itself to emulate the very worst ideas of its competitors?
We are lost in that nether world between DOS and Commander Data, between a computer that only the cognoscenti can operate, and a computer that operates in ordinary language so seamlessly that it is, for all intents and purposes, conscious.
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