Windows on the Desktop
Microsoft began with the desktop. The modern Windows environment has become ubiquitous. Countless applications are available, and most computer users are at least somewhat at home with Windows. While Microsoft has made much progress in modernizing Windows, there are still significant problems.
Problems with Windows
Maintaining a Windows PC is a chore, because applications are quite complex. They consist of many files, Registry entries, shortcuts, and so on. Different applications can share certain DLLs, and installing a new application can overwrite a DLL an existing application depends on, possibly breaking an old application (DLL Hell). Removing an application is a complex operation and is often imperfectly done.
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