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It would be more unreal if they introduce "Windows 9x" desktop shell, probably for me it would be reason even to consider to dual boot to windows

• megaman22 8y ago
  How much would it cost Microsoft to buy Notepad++ and Classic Shell, and remove two of the biggest annoyances in modern Windows? Meaning, of course, that they would use them in Windows, so there would be a text editor and a start menu that work. Not buy and kill.
  • make3 8y ago
    for notepad++, they already have vscode
    • cm2187 8y ago
      Not really comparable in term of resource utilization
    • khedoros1 8y ago
      VS Code seems like less of a general-purpose text editor, though (and is also much "heavier")
      • make3 8y ago
        heavier sure, general purpose I'm not convinced
    • derefr 8y ago
      Plus, I think Windows strives to not be "batteries-included" in some ways, perhaps in order to encourage a healthy third-party software ecosystem (and perhaps to follow the spirit of the anti-trust ruling.) Windows 10 has fewer bundled apps than Windows 98 did. Nothing is an "optional feature" any more; it's all App Store packages [that happen to be made by Microsoft] now.
      • aksss 8y ago
        Windows 10 still has plenty of "optional features". Two ways of viewing these - Settings/Apps/Manage Optional Features (For instance, if you want to install openSSH, this is where you'd do it). Also, Control Panel/Programs and Features/Turn Windows Features On or Off. This is where you'd install the telnet client, container support, Hyper-V, tftp, etc.
  • cm2187 8y ago
    They did it for sysinternals