Windows 8
Kinect
E3 2013
OG Xbox One Design
Pre-Owned games being disregarded
Xbox One only being able to function with Kinect.

One of the biggest disasters from a big firm in recent memory which still haunts them (to a certain degree) they made Sony washing them so easy during this period. The fact they were going to get rid of physical media all together and pre-owned games market would be redundant is one of the most out of touch, nonsensical, and greed fueled loaded bs i've ever seen a company take actively making their product inaccessible.

Windows 8 looked like trash and operated like garbage one of the ugliest looking OS oat and to me it still gonna be a while until we see something that tops how grotesque it was on the eye.

Xbox One S and X were huge upgrades in terms of aesthetics, functionality, and playback. the OG Xbox One is one of the ugliest things ever invented s*** looked like a VCR/Betamax from the 80s.

Kinect was just them jumping on the wii bandwagon and it never took off and the fact they insisted on it being vital aspect of the Xbox One was laughable.

I wish them the best in the future and Windows 11 looks like a step in the right direction, but we must not forget the mistakes of the past.

totally agree, terrible years for them

Microsoft has had some terrible products outside those years but yeah that was peak MS failure years

their first big f*** up was Windows ME, it was an unstable tranwreck and Vista had very similar issues

I'd definitely argue those 2 OSes were far worse than 8.. like Vista would crash so much for me early on. I remember Nvidia Control Panel would nuke the entire OS every 30 minutes, I had to go back to XP lol

I have no faith in Microsoft for Windows 11, I use their cloud products for my Job and their always inferior to AWS, Google etc
unless you just wanna run a Windows server
you will always run into weird issues that waste your time

only good thing about Win 8 was the wallpaper.

Window 8’s UI was so ugly that I went out and bought a Macbook

all of this stuff started in 2012-2013 though

Windows 7 and Xbox 360 weren't that bad and lived until 2011

western civilization

I think the only good thing from that era was the microsoft word/office redesign in like 2012 or 2013

Coon Rapids...

Why even use word when WordPad exists tbh

Also Windows Phone flopped around those years

Wasn't even that bad, just didn't have a good plan to attract the developers tbh

F***ing one of the best phones to use. Just no one made apps smh

I think every student gets microsoft office for free with any college account in my state lmao

plus all online documents and work assigned, is in word

Windows 8 wasn’t that bad tbh, got better with Windows 8.1 too

If you don’t like the UI, it’s one thing, but I don’t remember it being a buggy mess like Vista was

Yeah it was that bad

it was bad bro, they tried to bring a mobile ui onto a desktop
it legit didn’t feel like it was made for functionality and more on the side of media and touchscreen activity
can’t do that to desktop systems

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xbox 360 was still godlike in this time period tho, kinect aside

Windows 8 looked like pure s***

Win 10 their best UI in a minute

Wordpad doesnt have as many formatting options

What is this???

"In 2015, we formed Blacks at Xbox as a way of connecting with one another across Team Xbox. We wanted to create a community to support each other and uplift the black community within the gaming industry"

They just chose the worst name possible