Software may be getting worse, but it used to be truly horrible
Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
Jake, who has used computers since 1990, pushes back on nostalgia for the good old days of software. Windows once held roughly 95% market share, and the Blue Screen of Death was a fact of life. Buggy device drivers, apps without autosave, and manual disk defragmentation made computers fragile. A 1998 Axis & Allies game crashed whenever a country exceeded 255 units. The one saving grace: software shipped on floppy disks and CDs, so it had to work out of the box.
The best minds of Microsoft were nothing next to the hacking talent of a 9-year-old.