Not the OS but still Microsoft in all their glory!
Posted on 04/05/2021 1:35:41 PM PDT by upchuck
After over three decades of Microsoft Windows success, there have been some clear failures along the way. With that in mind, we’ve picked the six worst versions of Windows. All of these made us want to stick to older, better versions of Windows, or use alternatives like Macs or Linux instead.
The Ranking Criteria Most of us know a bad version of Windows when we see it. Maybe we’ve experienced personal pain in wrestling with its bugs, or lost time reinstalling it over and over again, or heard stories about how often it’s crashed.
In developing this list, we considered the following metrics: How much people hated each version (appearances on other worst-of lists), how poorly it sold, how slowly it was adopted, how bad its reviews were, the length of its lifespan on the market, and our own personal experiences with the software. For fun, we also googled “Windows [x] Sucks,” and tallied up the results.
Honestly, there’s no hard science to this, so you might not agree with our exact ranking, but we can confidently predict this: If you ran at least one of these versions of Windows, you wanted to upgrade.
ME was awful. I liked XP. Frankly my favorite 3.1.
I liked XP!
And, I like 7. I’m using it now.
I miss DOS, too. WordPerfect for DOS was so powerful; when they caved to Windows format, it lost a lot. Paradox for DOS was good, too.
Now I’m hanging on to Windows 7 with Office 2003. DH deals with Windows 10 renting Office 365.
I didn’t hate Vista. I hated Vista until I worked in 10 for a few weeks; then I realized Vista was OK.
I do have XP on an old laptop that I’d love to get in to, but can’t use. (I like the XP sound recorder.) Blue screen of death. It’s probably easy to troubleshoot but I don’t know how. :(
Ping.
Got Linux. I have to use Windows 10 occasionally.
I was wondering if anyone would mention MS BOB. Should have been #1.
Win 10 finally convinced me to start using Linux.
Not the OS but still Microsoft in all their glory!
I miss,really miss OS/2
Well at least XP did what it was supposed to do.
Definitely. I have WP on all my systems. I prefer the DOS version, though. It was more fun (it made you think) and did some things the Windows versions of WP can’t do.
It’s a tie, they are all equally bad.
I hated 98, too. You had to reboot to change the hard IP address.
I’m a Linux user.
What is the Windows thingy you all keep talking about? Sounds horrible.
I’m still tying to get my Windows 10 PC to dual boot to Linux. The problem is that Linus is an ISO boot and Windows is an EIFT (or something) boot.
It is. All the horrible things you read about it is true. I run Linux for my everyday use.
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