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.
#6: Windows 1.01 (1985)
#5: Windows XP (Initial Release, 2001)
#4: Windows RT (2012)
#3: Windows 8 (2012)
#2: Windows Vista (2006)
#1: Windows Millennium Edition (2000)
Honorable mention: Windows 10 (2015)
WOW! Hang my head in shame. How could I forget?
Hat tip to friend Leo for pointing me to this article. Sorry.
Actually, I miss DOS. Once you figured it out, it was easy as hell.
I would like to see a ranking of the best of Windows. For me, I was sad to see Windows 95 and Windows 7 leave the scene.
I am very glad that Windows 10 arrived after Windows 8 was foisted upon us. My business organization just recently migrated to Windows 10 and kept Windows 7 around for as long as they could.
The all suck. Windows 10 is the worst. Slow as molasses on a cold day and it takes FOREVER to update, with multiple reboots, which it seems to want to do every time I turn it on.
Windows ping.
Vista was supremely terrible.
I recently upgraded my Office suite from version 2007 to 2016. Was running out of room in my email database, and archiving them doesn’t help much. I hate that it has its own navigation panes. Used to be if you wanted to save a document, you’d get a Windows window pop-up. Familiar and easy to copy and paste a directory. Now, it has all kinds of buttons and you have to physically navigate to the folder you want to save it to. And the toolbar ribbon moved a bunch of stuff around. For sending emails, used to be if you replied it would open the reply in a new window. Now it’s inside the reading pane, so you can’t easily look at another email while composing a fresh one. There is a way, it’s just not obvious and requires additional steps. Truly unintuitive, imo, especially for people who upgraded from previous versions.
Maybe there is a way to change the settings, I haven’t explored a lot. Just installed last week.
I have a Windows 10 Microsoft book. For the most part I like the tablet, it replaced an older laptop. But I installed a “skin” that allows it to appear and function like it was Windows 7.
And FWIW, I won’t buy their subscription online services. If they force me to use the cloud or the internet to write documents and create spreadsheets, I’ll move to some other software. Hopefully Office 2016 will endure as long as office 2007 did.
Windoze 10 should be top by far.
Wouldn’t that cover about all of them?
Windows 10 has serious update problems. If you happen to be one of the ones afflicted by some of it worst problems then it really sucks. Like having it try to do a major update everyday and failing every time right near the end of the update and then waiting for it all to roll back. Next day it does the same thing all over again. It can put 20 years on your hard drive in a week.
All some of the most basic features ignore what they are set at and just do their own thing. Like not going to sleep as set. Searching for files in windows 10 does not work right either.
Still using 7 despite lack of support.
If it wasn’t for Microsoft killing my printer drivers for XP, I would have stayed with it over Win 10. Upgrading to XP from Win 98 cured all of the resource problems I had with it’s predecessor. I’ve had no problems with Win 10 but liked XP much better.
Anyone remember Microsoft Bob? I never knew anyone that actually installed it. I sure did get a chuckle out of the concept, and not in a good way for MS.
The company I retired from was a Windows enterprise client and very dependent. I could have taken an old laptop when I retired but didn’t. I had just purchased a Mac Air and said goodbye to Windows problems with fear in my heart as to what Apple would do to me as I adapted.
Now seven years have passed on that Air and I just moved to an new Air with twice the memory and storage. Have bought an Ipad as well and Kindle to my hearts content, FaceTime my 11 grandkids and don’t sweat browsing whatever I want. Password setup is great. I will never buy an MS product again.
I will never forget Windows ME.
I had it installed and it was as if I went out a paid to have a virus installed in my computer. - Tom
Vista 1.0 had probems galore, but they fixed everything I needed fixed in the preview, or whatever they called it, to the first service pack.
If I hadn’t started on Win 95, Win 98, and Win XP I would have no idea what you are talking about. Never had the Win 10 update problems other get, but I still like XP better.
Windows XP was the best in my experience. Especially with Service Pack 2. Didn’t have a single system crash with XP.
Win 10 is by far the worst. You at least had personal control over all the rest and almost none over Win 10. It will always belong to MS and never you.
ABSOLUTELY...
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