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.
I still have XP on an old desktop that I keep around because I use some ancient (late 90s) software that supports an equally ancient and expensive piece of hardware, and it will only run on a real XP system (no emulations will work).
Every time I fire it up, I am reminded of how good XP was.
Download OpenOffice and use it. Just Save Files by using the File Extension so Others can access the Files with their windoze office 666 or whatever they are forced to use. https://www.openoffice.org/download/
I miss DOS6.2...😪
I’d rank it 3rd worst. While 10 is terrible, Vista and Millennium were nightmares.
Aw, Microsoft Bob was awesome! Add Clippy to that and that friendly voice that announced “You’ve got mail!” every time a porn spammer sent you a link you’d better not click, and you’d have an OS for the ages! Productivity is overrated.
I never had any problems with Windows XP or Windows 10.
Ran XP from when it first came out until I went to Windows 10 with a new computer. Ran good. I wrote lots of software for various business applications. Basic, Cobol, C++, HTML. Could get all kinds of apps that did neat things for free. Still have my XP computer sitting next to my Windows 10 machine. Still need it to do some stuff.
Nobody’s mentioned Windows RG...
(Look it up on Youtube....)
Okay, I just read through this thread, and there was not one word about Windows 2000. As both a user and tech, it was hands down the best OS Microsoft ever made. They took all the lessons they learned about stability with NT 4.0 release 6a and combined them with the video and compatibility stuff learned with 98 release C (DirectX) and made a stable, high performance OS that almost never bluescreened(except USB issues prior to SP1) I miss Win2k.
It may be in your bios boot order. Your Bios has to be set to boot UEFI. And the USB has to be at the top of the list. Then the CD next as second. Then the rest as default. Why PC’s were never set up that way by default I have no clue. Greed?
Please PM me if I am on the wrong track and we will find the issue. :)
OS/2’s HUGE advantage was in hardware handling. The HAL that MS used at the time was a joke.
XP no... Win 10... lol
You are another one of those who own stock in MS...
Lol, well done... :)
Gone and forgotten...
Q: Why do they call me Windows 98?
A: Because I’m always crashing at your mom’s house.
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.
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That and Clippy, the Office Assistant. So annoying.
Oh hold on... I see where you are with that...
Download “Rufus” and make a USB stick with your preferred ISO of linux. the default settings should be default in Rufus to do both Bios and UEFI boot. “target system”.
Total horse vomit and feces. Windows XP is the greatest OS in computing history.
May I highly suggest the new Mint 20 “Cinnamon”? Hard to beat...
It looks like OpenOffice is discontinued.
I am running 8 Pro on my desktop with some adjustments so it looks like the 7 Pro GUI. I also managed to block out the Metro “Fisher Price” GUI. That GUI I find to be severely limiting for any real use. Sometimes it reminds me of some scenes from Idiocracy.
I run 19.1 Cinnamon on my dedicated Linux computer.
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