Modern Ubuntu is a laughable example with a lot of untested Rust components added just for the sake of some big corporations.
Defining better OS is almost as complicated as defining better philosophy. Somebody is leftist, somebody is rightist you know what I mean. When you see what's better usually you can not unseen it.
For me Woedows 7 can give:
1. years of uptime (still with regular browsing! and with using S-states!);
2. native support of god-like NTFS, all my personal backups has it;
3. better support on laptops, for example just try to ditch the UnneededD (Devuan) and you are going to say buy-buy to predictabrle S-states, stable USB performance when using multiple devices and who knows what else;
4. the best battery time among all the market;
5. some old hardware like ATI videocard can not be run on modern kernell, also some old hardware like my digital oscilloscope, my friend's digital syntheiser - all of that makes me not just use but love he Bill Gate's crap. You don't even tied to any version of your appreciated Debian.
6. A lot of industry-best software at least requires me to have Wine. Foobar as the best audio player, STDU as the best book reader, Viktoria as the best HDD tester etc. I have a terabyte of music, hundreds gigs of books and dozens of external disk drives, consuming all of that is my typical non-work activity.
7. I also still use it for my daily job which involves using Internets. No viruces gotten, no unexpected behaviour observed, just working.
I meant it's not malicious compared to similar offerings. If anything, Microsoft has been extremely generous when it comes to support. Albeit not so much today (more on that later). It's a half-joke that the only stable ABI on Linux is Win32.
You can have Linux and waste your time, and then stuff updates and Linux breaks. You can have MacOS and lock yourself into a padded Mac themed cell, for five years, then you have to upgrade or stuff will stop working (I'm on Intel Mac, less and less stuff works each day).
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As for your question.
Short: Blame capitalism and its current setup.
Long: MSFT needs to beat the inflation; otherwise, it's falling behind. And because Windows is no longer growing, you can't really do anything other than rent extraction. It's reached saturation point, which means that money needs to be extracted in some other ways - via ads, via upselling (buy an Xbox 365 subscription), via selling data, etc.
So why the 20 years has no outcomed anything better than 7? The result is malicious.
Define better? I’d prefer modern Debian or Ubuntu over Windows 7 any day
Modern Ubuntu is a laughable example with a lot of untested Rust components added just for the sake of some big corporations.
Defining better OS is almost as complicated as defining better philosophy. Somebody is leftist, somebody is rightist you know what I mean. When you see what's better usually you can not unseen it.
For me Woedows 7 can give:
1. years of uptime (still with regular browsing! and with using S-states!);
2. native support of god-like NTFS, all my personal backups has it;
3. better support on laptops, for example just try to ditch the UnneededD (Devuan) and you are going to say buy-buy to predictabrle S-states, stable USB performance when using multiple devices and who knows what else;
4. the best battery time among all the market;
5. some old hardware like ATI videocard can not be run on modern kernell, also some old hardware like my digital oscilloscope, my friend's digital syntheiser - all of that makes me not just use but love he Bill Gate's crap. You don't even tied to any version of your appreciated Debian.
6. A lot of industry-best software at least requires me to have Wine. Foobar as the best audio player, STDU as the best book reader, Viktoria as the best HDD tester etc. I have a terabyte of music, hundreds gigs of books and dozens of external disk drives, consuming all of that is my typical non-work activity.
7. I also still use it for my daily job which involves using Internets. No viruces gotten, no unexpected behaviour observed, just working.
I meant it's not malicious compared to similar offerings. If anything, Microsoft has been extremely generous when it comes to support. Albeit not so much today (more on that later). It's a half-joke that the only stable ABI on Linux is Win32.
You can have Linux and waste your time, and then stuff updates and Linux breaks. You can have MacOS and lock yourself into a padded Mac themed cell, for five years, then you have to upgrade or stuff will stop working (I'm on Intel Mac, less and less stuff works each day).
---
As for your question.
Short: Blame capitalism and its current setup.
Long: MSFT needs to beat the inflation; otherwise, it's falling behind. And because Windows is no longer growing, you can't really do anything other than rent extraction. It's reached saturation point, which means that money needs to be extracted in some other ways - via ads, via upselling (buy an Xbox 365 subscription), via selling data, etc.
And? There are barely any API differences between 7 and 10.