Which Microsoft OS do you hate worse.

[punahou1]

Windows 2.0 was cool because you had to build your own fonts. As I recall in 1.0 you had to buy fonts...

 

[Murissokah]

ME definitely fails hardest.

 

[Guest]

i was going to say ME is not bad at all until i was reminded with this:

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.

yeah, it did suck the nutsack.

but hey, i had "clean instals" down to a science!

 

[PCgamer81]

Fixed.

Wrong. It's a fact.

Vista was garbage.

 

[cadder]

Of those 3 choices, I have not worked with Me or 8, but I have worked with Vista so I had to pick that one.

I think Vista got a bad rap. There are things I don't like about it but I use it and I don't think it is horrible. I currently use 4 PC's regularly- 1 with XP, 1 with Vista and 2 with 7. I find more things I don't like about Vista than the others, but mostly it works fine for me.

Of the recent Windows OS versions 98SE is the one that I disliked the most, and this was mostly because it had difficult with installing software or adding on devices. By contrast 7 seems to be very good about accepting new software and new devices.

 

[randomizer]

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

512MB of RAM wasn't even enough for XP. In fact 1GB wasn't enough for XP, let alone Vista.

 

[captaincharisma]

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

sounds like HP. they did the same thing with XP they installed it on computers with a low end celeron with only 128-256MB of ram. the PC's just crawled

 

[shafe88]

I'd hate to be this guy using vista.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW8Hxoib1fY

 

[sscultima]

i know my first computer was running 512mb of sdr memory with windows XP, had 80gb HDD, and a Pentium 4 1.4GHz was able to overclock to 1.8GHz, lol

that ran XP as well as it could, games chocked, had a geforce2 MX400 64mb

but in all it was a decent system for what i used it for, just upgraded the card once more in its life span, had the PC for close to 5 years. mind you i bought it right when P4 came out.

 

[meoma]

I don't like windows 8 its really very confusing for me.

 

[sscultima]

I don't like windows 8 its really very confusing for me.

Vista was confusing for me with the network components changing and new look, but i got over it and learned. I do hope this does not become a trend with every other release of OS from MS.

 

[vitornob]

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.)

Hate is an emotion, yes. But isn't irrelevant to judge an OS. A product (a music, an OS, a cloth, a car, everything) shall bring some emotion to the end-user and through help to justify the buying, or not buying.
Just look at how Porsche mini-websites are built. Cayman miniwebsite, they give you the freedom, the dinamism, the new rich, the night life.
Panamera mini-websites gives you the well stabilished man, the midage good looking man, the class, the importance etc.

 

[DomDunes]

Never had a chance to try windows me but I know that I hated Vista big time.

 

[ejb222]

ME was BAD! Vista is not too bad...runs prefectly fine on my ol' Inspiron 1525. I really like W8 alot. It runs great on my Desktop. Took a little getting used to but so doesn't a new pair of jeans.

 

[PCgamer81]

To bloody hell with W8 until at least 2 years after release and/or DX12.

Like I want to wrestle with bad drivers and optimization problems when Windows 7 is (finally) running like a dream.

 

[sscultima]

To bloody hell with W8 until at least 2 years after release and/or DX12.

Like I want to wrestle with bad drivers and optimization problems when Windows 7 is (finally) running like a dream.

have you even used W8 yet? most drivers are already in the OS, at least all the basic ethernet ones then the rest can be auto downloaded from windows update (or from the manufacture website, using win7 drivers). even printer drivers are there, which for me was the biggest issue i had with almost all previous windows OS', i just added printer that was attached to my wireless network and it installed the needed drivers and even has a picture of the printer under its info, now that is awesome!

 

[PCgamer81]

have you even used W8 yet?

Give me one good reason why I should?

Windows 7 is working great for everything I need.

 

[rolli59]

If you have 7 stick with it. If you have XP or Vista you might as well jump to 8. I have XP, 7 and 8 running in my household and 8 CP is no worse than 7, actually it impressed my with driver support on install.

 

[randomizer]

Give me one good reason why I should?

Windows 7 is working great for everything I need.

Well you said that you didn't want to wrestle with driver and optimisation issues. It's easy to infer that you've run into some, yet you haven't even used the OS.

 

[PCgamer81]

Well you said that you didn't want to wrestle with driver and optimisation issues. It's easy to infer that you've run into some, yet you haven't even used the OS.

It's easy to infer based on the crappy experience of the last several OS launches (until, that is, MS got their crap together and released the proper Service Packs).

Simply put, while MS is guinea pigging with all you eager "I want it now" people, I will be sticking with a time tested OS for at least another year.

 

[sscultima]

It's easy to infer based on the crappy experience of the last several OS launches (until, that is, MS got their crap together and released the proper Service Packs).

Simply put, while MS is guinea pigging with all you eager "I want it now" people, I will be sticking with a time tested OS for at least another year.

you are basing your decision on the past, i find that hard to go on if you have not even used the OS.

As for all the people that are testing it now, yes some people will have issues with some drivers, but normally they are on dated hardware and drivers are already hard to get.

don't be in such a hurry to dis-regard something if you have not even tried it

 

[PCgamer81]

you are basing your decision on the past

Yep, I tend to do that.

It pays off - you should try it, sometime.

yes some people will have issues with some drivers

But I wont.

don't be in such a hurry to dis-regard something if you have not even tried it

Another thing I tend to do is disregard the things for which I have no use.

You should try that, as well. It really pays off.

 

[Guest]

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation”
- Herbert Spencer

 

[DarkOutlaw]

These are all...'beta' operating systems, and thats why they suck. ME was the beta for xp, vista was the beta for win7, win 8 is the beta for...whatever MS releases after.

 

[nukemaster]

ME(I would call this a win98 trying to get some of the win2000 features and then some) and XP had nothing in common. XP is much closer to Windows 2000 with lots of tweaks then anything.

Win7 Is like a SP for Vista. That is kind of true, but Vista was not even that bad(Post SP1 it was very good in fact).

Win8, well its different and I am trying to get used to its Start Screen(like you have a choice in the long run. If you want Windows, this is what it is becoming).

Funny thing is, My parents would not even miss the start menu as they do not even use it for anything more then shutting down. All programs are on the desktop and keyboard shortcuts(e-mail/web/music ect).

Maybe this is just it. Simplicity?