Few releases in Microsoft’s multi-decade march through operating system history have sparked as much debate, confusion, and—retrospectively—underrated admiration as Windows 8. When Microsoft launched its bold, famously divisive OS in 2012, it was greeted with a chorus of criticism from long-time...
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