Which Microsoft OS do you hate worse.

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I LOVE them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sscultima]

My first PC windows 3.1 with DOS, enjoyed it, gave me my first taste of command line and windows based usage, for the time is was good. second PC i bought had Windows ME, biggest piece of garbage i ever used, BSOD at LEAST once a day, was not hardware related, installed Windows 2000 onto it after and stuck with that until XP came out.

Vista was bad at first, but did get better and i always used it over XP since i was into DX10 gaming at the time, so i wouldnt say vista was too bad.

Win8 - cmon, its not even out yet, and most people hate it because it looks different, and cant even get past that fact and actually use it before they judge it. plus its not even complete yet, so even if someone had an issue with say drivers or a program that would be ironed out into the release and shortly after.

Loser is ME for sure, even though it did bring a COUPLE new things

 

[ohiou_grad_06]

All I gotta say is try Classic Shell. I have it on my Windows 7 laptop and it's great! It is supposed to work with Windows 8 also, but gives you a Start Menu and can even emulate the older Windows 2000 style Start Menu. I can see this being great for older people who are going to migrate from XP. Also for me, as I'm a tech, so I can picture a lot of frustrated users that this would help.

Bad thing about 8 is they pretty much for desktop are giving you a cut down Windows 7. They need to give users a choice of a Windows 7 like experience or Metro. Kinda thinking people just forgave them for Vista, they hit a homerun with 7. As their foot is healing from Vista, they are about to shoot themselves in the other foot. Windows 8 looks great for tablets, but when I want to use my desktop or laptop, give me a real OS. I should not have to use 3rd party software to make my PC work the way I want it to work.

 

[L0tus]

I picked Vista cos I skipped ME but yeah, all my seniors tell me the horror stories.

I still have XP pro at home. Its great & I have zero intention of ever upgrading until the software i use (office & games) requires it. Win7 at work is great too.

 

[ohiou_grad_06]

Although 8 is supposed to be 40 until Jan 31 I think after release. Being a tech, I'm likely to grab a copy to learn on.

 

[ahnilated]

This is just a poll to see which OS users hate more.

How about every one from 3.11 to current?

 

[Thomas_89]

I only ever used Win 98, XP, vista and 7 and frankly I never had much issues with any of them. I do tend to think I'm lucky I never touched ME and based on what i read about it, it would get my vote.

 

[voodooking]

DOS was the worst. It made me quit computing for a decade. I hated it.

 

[the great randini]

hated windows mistake edition, loved vista ultimate (animated background AWSOME),
windows 8 not sure yet want to try a tablet first

 

[captaincharisma]

windows vista was improved via updates and windows 8 is stable in beta, windows ME constantly blue screened. Microsoft BOB was worse than ME though but i think that was more of an add-on then an OS

 

[rolli59]

I learned and used DOS, you did have to know what you where doing. First Windows environment I tried was 1.1 but really did not become usable until 3.0. Never ran ME but loaded XP for friends on many ME machines because of all the issues so my vote goes towards ME.

 

[inanition02]

ME is by far the worst, the first edition of 98 wasn't great and 3.1 was bad (3.11 was actually an improvement!)

Vista was a fine OS - but hardware makers had gotten complacent with the long tenure of XP...people were trying to install a much larger/more complex OS on systems that were by then 4 years old.

 

[gmaster456]

ME was a mess.

Am I the only person who didn't have any issues with Vista? I didn't try to run it on anemic hardware and I wasn't using obscure peripherals. My software worked fine. Even older versions.

And Windows 8 is really starting to grow on me. At first I absolutely hated it, but now, I'm fine with it. I just needed to learn the ins and outs. And being a Windows admin, I need to keep on top of Windows anyway. I still don't see the purpose for it in a business/managed environment. Especially for what we use our machines for. But I think it will be a home run for home users in this day and age of Apps. And that $40 price is pretty attractive. I'm going to buy at least couple copies. The price also makes it a great, cheap way, to upgrade XP machines.

 

[PCgamer81]

Vista was the worst and that's a fact.

Sure, if you had 8GB of RAM and one helluva CPU (back in '06/'07, mind you), Vista was a dream.

But for the 99% of us, it was utter garbage.

As for the best OS of all time, I would have to say Windows XP, and it's not even close.

 

[gmaster456]

Vista was the worst and that's an opinion.

Fixed.

 

[pjmelect]

Windows Me wasn't that bad, its real problem at the time was that it couldn't run DOS games like Windows98SE. The operating system that I hated working on the most at the time was Windows NT which was terrible.
Vista is very bad as well with numerous problems, but I think that Windows 8 will be the worse of all of the above operating systems.

 

[nukemaster]

Vista was excellent after the service pack, but we did pay for an extended beta which wasn't right.

I skipped over ME and 2000, just because I heard all the complaints.

XP was similar as far as feeling like a beta for quite a while. Lots of things worked better on 98 at the time

I jumped to Vista as soon as SP1 came out so i had very little problems outside of Nvidia's drivers of the time(8800GTX).

 

[The_Prophecy]

Vista was the worst and that's a fact.

Sure, if you had 8GB of RAM and one helluva CPU (back in '06/'07, mind you), Vista was a dream.

But for the 99% of us, it was utter garbage.

As for the best OS of all time, I would have to say Windows XP, and it's not even close.

And you are the authority on all things Vista? 8GB of ram wasn't needed, it worked great on 4. And even in 2007, 4GB of ram (while not quite commonplace yet) was not a major purchasing decision. Nor was a top of the line CPU needed either. Mid range units also ran it just fine. I had (and supported for others) plenty of these kinds of systems at the time and had little to no problems with performance.

XP being the best OS of all time I would also dispute... it will certainly go down as a great OS (I loved it too before Vista came out), but the best? It had some really serious security shortcomings when it arrived. Code isn't perfect of course, but Microsoft had really figured out how not to shoot themselves in the foot by the time 7 came out. Gone were the "lets include a checkbox as the extent of our firewall, but leave it off by default" - types of issues. Bugs and security issues that are discovered in Microsoft products these days are more about mistakes in the code, not mistakes in the decision making.

 

[nukemaster]

And you are the authority on all things Vista? 8GB of ram wasn't needed

But it sure helped(Thanks to patriot for cheap fast ram)

I think lots of user confused super-fetch as wasted memory. When in fact it was all released as soon as needed and if it was not needed, common apps launched FASTER.

 

[Pinhedd]

And you are the authority on all things Vista? 8GB of ram wasn't needed, it worked great on 4. And even in 2007, 4GB of ram (while not quite commonplace yet) was not a major purchasing decision. Nor was a top of the line CPU needed either. Mid range units also ran it just fine. I had (and supported for others) plenty of these kinds of systems at the time and had little to no problems with performance.

XP being the best OS of all time I would also dispute... it will certainly go down as a great OS (I loved it too before Vista came out), but the best? It had some really serious security shortcomings when it arrived. Code isn't perfect of course, but Microsoft had really figured out how not to shoot themselves in the foot by the time 7 came out. Gone were the "lets include a checkbox as the extent of our firewall, but leave it off by default" - types of issues. Bugs and security issues that are discovered in Microsoft products these days are more about mistakes in the code, not mistakes in the decision making.

Couldn't possibly agree more. Hardware manufacturers were shipping Vista machines with 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM when 2GB of DDR SDRAM was common on the previous generation. Add in low frequency CPUs with neutered caches that were outperformed by the old netburst machines and Vista was basically setup to be a disaster

 

[gmaster456]

Couldn't possibly agree more. Hardware manufacturers were shipping Vista machines with 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM when 2GB of DDR SDRAM was common on the previous generation. Add in low frequency CPUs with neutered caches that were outperformed by the old netburst machines and Vista was basically setup to be a disaster

I remember seeing a number of machines being shipped with Vista that had 512mb of ram and bottom of the barrel Celerons

 

[nukemaster]

I remember seeing a number of machines being shipping with Vista that had 512mb of ram and bottom of the barrel Celerons

Yeah, that did not help at all. People could not believe I had and LIKED Vista.

 

[Pinhedd]

I remember seeing a number of machines being shipping with Vista that had 512mb of ram and bottom of the barrel Celerons

I refuse to acknowledge the existence of those machines

 

[nukemaster]

I refuse to acknowledge the existence of those machines

I saw some laptops like that. I was asked why is this Vista so damn slow. I was like because this computer does not have the needed hardware to run it right. Its kind of like selling an XP system with 16megs of ram.

 

[rolli59]

NT and later windows 2000 was never meant for the general public they where professional versions for business use and never got supported by the gaming industry. XP was the first NT kernel version that was aimed at the general public replacing both windows 2000 and windows 98 (DOS based) and even ME which was neither nor.