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The 6 Worst Versions of Windows, Ranked
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| Apr 5, 2021
| Benj Edwards
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.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Education
KEYWORDS: microsoft; windows
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To: upchuck
ME was awful. I liked XP. Frankly my favorite 3.1.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:28:43 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
To: upchuck
I liked XP!
And, I like 7. I’m using it now.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:29:41 PM PDT
by
sonova
(That's what I always say sometimes.)
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
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. :(
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:35:05 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
("if I perish, I perish." Esther 4:16)
To: dayglored
44
posted on
04/05/2021 2:37:34 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: monkeyshine
45
posted on
04/05/2021 2:40:51 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Got Linux. I have to use Windows 10 occasionally.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:41:54 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
To: Dutch Boy
I was wondering if anyone would mention MS BOB. Should have been #1.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:44:37 PM PDT
by
ex91B10
(I'm a 20th century man but I don't want to be here not)
To: MayflowerMadam
Word Perfect is still going. Look
here.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:48:08 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: upchuck
Win 10 finally convinced me to start using Linux.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:48:46 PM PDT
by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
To: upchuck
Not the OS but still Microsoft in all their glory!
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:49:00 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(I love my Country, but I fear too much Government!)
To: upchuck
Vista forced me to switch to Mac OS/X. I have never looked back...
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:50:29 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: upchuck
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:53:28 PM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
(I'll be good, I will, I will!)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Well at least XP did what it was supposed to do.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:53:30 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: Army Air Corps
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.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:56:32 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
("if I perish, I perish." Esther 4:16)
To: upchuck
It’s a tie, they are all equally bad.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:59:18 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: upchuck
Worst ever by miles. All top ten places.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:59:57 PM PDT
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: gr8eman
I hated 98, too. You had to reboot to change the hard IP address.
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:02:09 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
To: upchuck
I’m a Linux user.
What is the Windows thingy you all keep talking about? Sounds horrible.
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:02:40 PM PDT
by
Linux Rules
(Linux - Resistance Is Futile)
To: Openurmind
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.
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:04:20 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
To: Linux Rules
It is. All the horrible things you read about it is true. I run Linux for my everyday use.
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:06:36 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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