Why does Microsoft still exist? It has the most tarnished reputation

>>60125559
Imo Windows 7 is a pretty good operating system.

>>60125559
Using their position of monopoly to make themselves hard to avoid plus companies (aka. the shit that makes the real money) are generally run by old, conservative people with old conservative employees who'd hate change to their MS shit. Also patents.

>>60125559
Legacy

>>60125573
It was shit before SP1 desu.

By the time it was "ok" they moved on to the failed Windows 8 release.

>>60125596
I'm still using Win 7 SP1 because i don't give a shit about the updates anymore and it does the job well.

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>>60125696
>Using a 10 year old operating system

>>60125559
Active Directory
Azure
Exchange
Office365
Xbox / Live
Hotmail / MSN / Outlook
Office

And Billions of dollars...

>Microsoft
>It has the most tarnished reputation in Silicon Valley and the world.

You miss-spelled Oracle...

>>60125752
My laptop is 6 years old too. I don't use it for much except browsing, videos and music

>>60125752
Why does the age matter? The hallmark of being a power user is to upgrade when you need to, not just because you can.

>>60125765
Visual Studio
Almost anyone devolping application software is owned by microsoft.

>>60127277
You can use gcc to build Windows apps - look up MinGW.

Yes, most Windows devs use Visual Studio anyway, but it can be done without it.

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>>60127256
>Using a 6 year old laptop

>>60129128
weak bait

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>>60129273
>Too Poor to get latest and greatest
>Thinks it's bait

>>60125596
I used Windows 7 from the day it came out in '09. It was absolutely fine then. Vista was fine too if you didn't have a computer that was gimped spec wise.

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>>60125559
coz they make good OSs, nigga what are you using on your computer ? what do most businesses use? government? youre(OP) useless

>>60125752
>tfw a 10 year old os is still better than that piece of shit gnu trash linux that gets updated daily.
Sad.

>>60129377
Microshit will stop supporting Win7 updates very soon.

Winlel 7 doesn't support DX12, or new features from latest processors.

You're like one of those fags who stuck with Winlel XP forever.

Time to upgrade to Winlel 10 faggot

They are very good at making money.

>>60129451
nigga they will stop supporting in a few years, after that the bay of pirates will give a copy to use , win7 is probably the best OS since XP .

>>60125559
What's the alternative?

>>60125559
>Microsoft
>Silicon Valley

>>60129489
nothing if they have take some kind of computer course

>>60125559
t. apple

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/microsoft-profits-up-27-on-demand-for-cloud-services-1.3064224

Will literally never die.

>>60129441
didn't know they gave mental patients computer time, how novel.

>>60129560
defending linux...how novel

>>60129489
Mac.

>>60125584

This pretty much

But they're being retarded and actively try to break legacy support.

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>(((upgrading))) to Windows 10

Why do people fall for this?

Windows 7 is the sweet spot of compatibility , performance and bloatness.

You can use old and new software at peak performance with minimal UI bullshit and maximum customizationability.

>>60130429
new task manager
dx12
8GB system disk usage (on tablets can be shrinked even to 5GB)
better memory management
better battery life on my laptop than w7
newer drivers for almost everything including GPU
imho looks better than w7

Excel

Why use Windows?
Everything besides games can be done on a Mac.

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>>60130429

It's actually good now.

>mfw I missed my opportunity because I feel for the win10 meme and now I'm stuck to Win 8.1

>>60130475
>DX12
It is being anally raped by Vulcan. DX12 makes little to no difference in performance.

>8GB system disk usage
OS size shouldn't be a problem in this day and age where for 20 bucks you can get 500 gigs of HDD

>better memory management
[citation needed]

>better battery life on my laptop than W7
Werks on my Machine™

>Newer drivers for almost everything including GPU
You mean how the drivers are broken with every update? I have yet to hear about a driver which isn't compatible with W7
>imho looks better than W7
W10 has the ugliest interface I have ever seen in any windows.

Bill Gates pls