Windows 8 Memes

The Grim Reaper comes for us all, even operating systems. Windows 10 is being led to the afterlife, asking if it was a good OS. Death's brutal honesty—"MEH, BUT BETTER THAN 8"—is the software equivalent of "you weren't terrible, just aggressively mediocre." Microsoft's cycle of creating a disaster (Windows 8), following it with something less awful (Windows 10), then forcing everyone to upgrade again (Windows 11) is the tech industry's version of planned obsolescence. Pour one out for the OS that spent years desperately trying to convince you that Edge was a real browser.

The undead king of operating systems refuses to die! Windows XP, released in 2001, is somehow still commanding a higher market share (0.64%) than both Windows Vista (0.07%) and Windows 8 (0.28%) combined. That iconic blue sky and green hill background is basically the digital equivalent of a retirement home resident outliving their own children. Microsoft's engineers are somewhere crying into their keyboards while legacy systems administrators are proudly wearing their "It just works" t-shirts. The zombie OS keeps shambling along, bloody but unbowed, like Randy Marsh in South Park refusing to give up a fight. No security updates? No modern browser support? XP users: "I didn't hear no bell!"