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Someone needs to get around to doing this for Microsoft Teams.

You'd need to somehow get it to work on Windows 10/11 first.

That's a morally questionable action—it might encourage some businesses to stay on Windows 98 even longer. And if that weren't bad enough already, the employees would also have to use Teams!

Joke's on you, I think nowadays it's more enjoyable to use windows 98/95 compared to 10/11.

You may have to forego an always connected workflow but i guess that's good for your mental health too :)

Back then they had the technology to build a solitaire program without advertising, now sadly lost to the mists of time.

Lol wtf. I just ran Solitaire (on Win10) for the first time. I was greeted by a several second loading screen, a prompt telling me to login to something or another so I can "Level Up" and gain XP rewards, then an error message because it failed to login to XBox Live that cycled through multiple times as I cancelled out, before finally allowing me the privilege of playing as a guest on my own computer. And then I get a splash page filled with advertising crap of other products, which then gives me more errors when I tried to 'x' out of it.

What an ungodly abomination that is an utterly appropriate living metaphor for what "modern" OSs have turned into. I can't wait until everything also has "AI" shoved into it. It'll be great.

Watch ads as AI plays solitaire for you, now only $1.99.

Software has never been easier to make, there have never been more software developers, yet we are stuck with software monopoly

That version of Microsoft Solitaire Collection released ~12.5 years ago.

Win 7 felt like that sweet balance between modernity and functionality, especially before Microsoft started backporting the "telemetry" and other "features" from Win10 to Win7. Everything since then seems to serve little purpose other than revenue generation driven solely by forced obsolescence.

If Microsoft had just kept iterating on Windows 2000 forever and never developed past XP/Vista/7/etc. I probably wouldn't be a Linux user today.

How is this any more morally questionable than forcing employees to upgrade to Windows 11?

I'm not sure one person has that much self loathing.

I've been thinking of doing a native Skype client for years. I resented Skype 8 onwards.

Skype 7.x was the last Delphi Skype.

The last great one, before this abominable slow client that led to the exode from Skype.

Incidentally, Delphi itself jumped the shark at version 8.

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