My favorite has to be the Windows 8 era UI disaster.

How do most people log into a server? With a high-res physical touchscreen, or remote desktop?

So let's make a whole bunch of functionality impossible to access, because you have to bump up against a non-existent edge of a windowed remote screen, and literally make the UI not fit into common server screen resolutions at the time. I don't remember if 1024x768 was the minimum resolution that worked, or the maximum resolution that still didn't work. But it was an absolute comedy case.

I want to say that with only the basic VGA display drivers installed, screen resolution was too small to even get to the settings to fix it, but it's been a while and I can't find the info to prove it.

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protoster 4 days ago | parent [-]

Windows struck the iceberg back in 8. It took until 11 for people to finally start to abandon ship in numbers.

	▲	anonymars 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I wonder if it was losing Jim Allchin that did it. He retired after Vista and I'd say he was in charge of Windows during its golden age. 7 was basically Vista SP3, and then things took a different direction. But, to every coin there are two sides: "I consider this cross-platform idea a disease within Microsoft. We are determined to put a gun to our head and pull the trigger."