Which Microsoft OS do you hate worse.

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Which Microsoft OS do you hate worse.

  • Windows Me

    Votes: 87 52.1%

  • Windows Vista

    Votes: 48 28.7%

  • Windows 8

    Votes: 32 19.2%
  • Total voters
    167
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For me Windows 8 is by far the worst. Windows Me may not have been the most popular Microsoft OS, but at least it paved the way for system restore and movie maker. And vista isn't that bad once you get sp2 installed
 
Where are the rest of their desktop OS's?

ms-dos
3.11
95
98
2000
ME
XP
VISTA
Win 7

Windows 8 isn't even out officially yet so how can anyone possibly have a valid reason to hate that?

But to answer your question. Windows ME was the worst OS I have ever used. I would rather go back to using dos.
 

I only included desktop OS's that most people hate. How many people do you know hates XP or 7
 

Don't worry your not missing nothing except start button 🙁
 


No, you only included Microsoft OS's that YOU think most people hate/hated! I know lots of people that hate XP.
 
For me, XP. I have used 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista and 7; 95 and 98 are understandably slow due to the hardware at that time, but XP is basically unresponsive when a problem arises. Task manager freezes, system slows down to a halt, basically when your OS is cluttered, but more problematic than Vista in the same situation. I don't know about you guys, but Vista was fine for me, but I did eventually upgrade and reformatted all my PCs to 7 due to clutter, and for upgrade reasons.
 
Windows ME

Thank god I was too young to be horrified by it. Though I do recall seeing either black or blue screens with white text appearing randomly from time to time, even when the computer was idling.

My dad took the brunt of trying to maintaining the Dell Dimension 4100 (probably a decade old by now). He later upgraded it to Windows xp after a year or so.
 
Having used everything back to Windows 95, I have to say that the worst Microsoft OS I have used to date out of your picks is Windows ME. Vista did have some legit issues, but if you gave it more than 2GB of ram, a decent processor and even a modest amount of drive space to work with, it would run just fine.

Having used all 3 preview builds of Windows 8 so far, I will be moving to it on all of my systems as soon as it ships. The new start screen will take some getting used to, as will the lack of a start button, but I'll get over it.
 


May I ask why you find the upgrade to Win 8 compelling.

I have a laptop running XP, a laptop running Win 7, a desktop running Win 7 and a new desktop that I haven't activated Win 7 on and I am trying to decide whether to put Windows 8 on some or all of them.

ps: I agree that Vista was a good OS with the right hardware. The only OS I truly hated was XP. When it first came out in 2001 the internet was in its infancy and XP was fine. But you know the old saying: fish and OS's stink after 11 years.
 
I ran Windows Me without a single update (no Internet connection) for roughly 2 years. In that time I reformatted several times just to restore the OS to basic operational capacity. Things like shutting down because an impossible task because of annoying little "Close Program" dialogs that never specified which program needed to be closed, and which would re-appear if you let it kill the imaginary program. On top of that, I saw BSoDs almost as often as my desktop.

The 13 people who voted for the other two OSs did not actually use Windows Me for any appreciable amount of time. It is an abomination to software development and an insult to Microsoft's customers that it was ever made.
 
I voted for ME for it was so bad, a lot of people quickly went back to 98SE. It was worst than Vista. At least Vista, as randomizer said, didn't BSOD on every boot.

Far as Vista goes, most of that wasn't the software's fault, but the systems it originally came on. I mean, 512MB of RAM in 2007! Once you got 2GB+ of RAM, Vista wasn't bad at all. It was a radical change, and a lot of people hate relearning their PC's.

Now, until I see the OEM version of 8 running, I don't have any opinions about it. The one thing I'm not looking excited about is the Metro GUI. Since Microsoft Word is the main program I use, I have no need for a touchscreen interface.
 
I don’t hate any of them. Hate is an emotion, and is irrelevant when judging an OS.

All Operating Systems have their place. For User Interface, I currently use Windows 7 x64 on a PC, for several hours per day. My network router probably has a version of Linux in it. Many of the Internet Web-Sites probably run of a version of Linux.

(I would hate to go back to exclusively using MSDOS though.)
 


In the very short time that I tried it, I didn't mind Metro that much. It was nice and smooth even on my hopeless Atom netbook. In fact most things were quite snappy, far better than XP on the same machine. Most of the Metro applications won't even run on my netbook though (it's 168 pixels under the minimum vertical resolution for most), so it's basically just a bunch of tiles that I will ignore completely before switching to the desktop.

Now using a mouse may be quite different. A touchpad is relatively well-suited to Metro because it's imprecise (especially mine). I have yet to try it with a mouse so I can't make a comment on that.

On a side note: I did notice two rather odd things that are still in the RP. Firstly, power functions are still under Settings when they are not settings. I realise they are probably just trying to avoid a top level menu with only three entries in it, but really, this is just confusing. Secondly, upon accidentally trying to load up the x86-64 ISO Windows 8 told me that my PC needed to be repaired because it did not have a 64-bit CPU. :lol:
 
ME was an absolute shocker

I bought a machine at the time it was out ... so it was built with ME in mind... but its stability was terrible.
I cant recall the details now... but I just recall being outraged at how bad and Basic the errors were... when 98SE was stable and good.

Made me become an early adoptor for Win XP (got it on day of release) ... and that was an outstanding move :)

Cheers
 
As people have chosen to make a distinction I will state two different things.

First off in my opinion ME was and will always be the least usable most issue ridden outright dog of an operating system known to man. Ok I admit I have not use every OS known to man so I maybe guilty of slight exaggeration.

Now to the point of the question, I'm going for dislike rather than hate,
I dislike W8 for many many reasons and on many many levels. I have used it and attempted to get on with it, the fact that the final OS is not in existence yet has no bearing on peoples feeling towards it, I submit that it is fully valid to have an opinion on it, enough is know known to form such an opinion after two released beta versions.

So if the question is what's the worse OS you have ever used then ME wins hands down. But if the question is about personal feelings towards an OS then I have to say I dislike W8 more than ME.

Mactronix :)
 
I am glad the moderator is keeping this thread open as it contains a lot of useful information for anyone evaluating Windows ME.

Do you recommend running Windows ME under a Sparc workstation/virtualized model? What is the cost-benefit analysis of Windows ME vs. Windows 3.11 for Workgroups? How about volume-licensing?

Btw: be on the look-out for anyone asking legitimate and specific questions about Windows 8. Could be an infiltrator from the Real World.

Cheers.
 
I've used all of microsoft's operating systems but since i am 23

the ones i have the most memories of is Windows ME.

Although honestly i don't hate it i still somewhat fondly remember the days i was spent using winamp and playing starcraft on that computer...


i am also just impressed by how easily it broke. how it would take 6 or so install attempts to get it ...installed. i remember trying to use a scsi drive with it.

the amount of problems it had.....makes it special to me
 

He is right.

Windows XP is one of the most loved Operating systems of all time, and after the Vista disaster, Windows 7 was a breath of fresh air, and despite the fact it was rushed to market, it eventually became a VERY efficient Operating System by almost anyone's standards.

I disagree with the inclusion of Windows 8, seeing as how it has yet to be released. If it took Windows 7 two years to get right, so to hold Windows 8 to any standards while it's still in the testing phase is naive.

Other than that, Windows Vista and Windows Me are the two worst Operating Systems of all time, and that's according to the general consensus.

Are you 12?
 


Leaving out poll options because you may not like the outcome is no way to conduct a poll. Either be objective about it or don't conduct one at all. I know plenty of people who preferred Windows 2000 to Windows XP until XP SP2 was released. I know plenty of people who have no problems at all with Windows Vista because they bought hardware that didn't suck.

Every OS has a rocky start, Vista and XP are no exception. There was a lot wrong with the hardware that Windows Vista shipped on and a lot wrong with application developers who took 5 years to get used to the paradigm changes that Microsoft made. Laptop OEMs such as Dell and HP insisted on producing dirt cheap laptops and desktops using bottom of the barrel hardware that was only barely met the system requirements. Many of these platforms used Core2 processors which were inferior to the dated Netburst PCs which they replaced. I use Windows Server 2008 (Same codebase as Vista SP1) on a couple of my customer serving boxes and it runs just fine. I'd upgrade it to 2008 R2 but that would mean shelling out a grand for another licence. Heck Server 2003 was so full of issues that it's barely usable by many people's opinions which makes Server 2008 a marked improvement.
 
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