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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic
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Date: 21 Feb 2025 02:11:58 GMT
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:25:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:40:12 +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> 
>> Johnny LaRue to CrudeSausage:
>> 
>>> And let's face it.  To have any future at all, Windows desperately
>>> needs to move forward.
>> 
>> Progress for the sake of progress is meaningless.
> 
> Particularly when most of what seems to be called “progress” these days
> (at least in the proprietary world) seems to be about promotion of new
> GUI fashions.

Like the women's fashion industry the new Guis are what was popular 10 
years ago. Are we past flat and back to skeuomorphic yet?