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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is
 Worth Nothing
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 09:20:25 -0500
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Andrzej Matuch wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 2025-01-01 07:50, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Joel wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>> 
>>> Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> We all have reasons to switch to Linux. When you're window shopping as
>>>>>> most of us are when it comes to the operating system, it's hard to find
>>>>>> the motivation to stick to it when we encounter the first few bugs. In
>>>>>> your case, it was how slow 11 was making your new hardware feel; for me,
>>>>>> it was the knowledge that the corporations involved had no interest in
>>>>>> fixing a three-year-old bug that made using the operating system
>>>>>> intolerable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Win11 23H2 was overweight, on a machine that was ideal to upgrade to
>>>>> Win11 21H2.  That is just ridiculous.  Two years.  Is that an
>>>>> eternity, or something?  I like Microsoft in the abstract, I think
>>>>> they're innovators, I think they do some useful things.  But that is
>>>>> irrelevant to my enjoyment of my machine.  Win11 outgrew it in *no
>>>>> time*.
>>>>
>>>> In exchange for manufacturers bundling Windows with every one of their
>>>> machines, Microsoft agrees to bloat the operating system artificially to
>>>> encourage users to upgrade more frequently.
>>>>
>>>> It's long been a theory but I would love to someone to tell me that it
>>>> is far-fetched.
>>>
>>> Boom.
>> 
>> That's the origin of the term "Wintel" IIRC.
>
> Windows = Win
> Intel = tel
>
> That's the origin. It has nothing to do with bloat.

It has to do with the symbiotic relationship of the two companies, and yes,
bloat did have something to do with it. IMHO.

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