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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:35:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:48:03 +0000, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:25:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> semi-transparent is like so cool!

I do like my 3D effects. But Microsoft doesn’t seem too keen on them any 
more. Absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Linux GUIs can implement 
them more efficiently, and on lower-spec hardware, than Windows was ever 
able to manage, oh no!