• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    They didn’t. A single low level.employee misspoke at a trade show and the press/internet commentators made a big deal out of it.

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      9 hours ago

      I specifically remember “last version of windows” in the commercials and stuff, but I looked it up after reading your comment, and you appear correct. Mandella effect, or just faulty memory?

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        8 hours ago

        I refuse to be gaslit. This is the whole reason we had smaller feature releases like windows 10 Redstone, were pushed for game pass, and had the built in ads.

        Windows 10 was supposed to be a continually evolving OS that made money from ads and subscriptions. When that failed they jumped to forcing new hardware and 11