[upchuck]

I know many FReepers delight in never reading the article, so here are the rankings:

#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)

[upchuck]

WOW! Hang my head in shame. How could I forget?

Hat tip to friend Leo for pointing me to this article. Sorry.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I remembered going from the beauty of Windows XP Service Pack 2 to the nightmare of Vista. I did manage successfully to resist moving from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Skipped right to 10...but still miss 7.

Actually, I miss DOS. Once you figured it out, it was easy as hell.

[the_Watchman]

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.

[Blood of Tyrants]

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.

[upchuck]

Windows ping.

[monkeyshine]

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.

[wastedyears]

Windoze 10 should be top by far.

[LastDayz]

Wouldn’t that cover about all of them?

[skr]

Still using 7 despite lack of support.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

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.

[Dutch Boy]

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.

[Capt. Tom]

#1: Windows Millennium Edition (2000)

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

[TChad]

Windows 3.0. I recall a Microsoft tech telling me that, yes, Microsoft understood that installing Windows 3.0 might have wiped out my D: drive. This was a known problem. He could do nothing to help me recover my data. Was there anything else that Microsoft could do for me?

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.

[Openurmind]

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.

[doorgunner69]

Skipped all of those other than maybe Xp.

Dos - Win 3 - W95 - Xp -Win 7-

ain't going further from what I see of my wife's Win10 machine.

[T.B. Yoits]

I thought Windows 7 was the best once you got used to it but have also been very happy with Windows 10. There are some things that 10 has and does well that were not available in 7 such as the virtual desktops.

While others complain about Windows Vista, I got lucky and never had a problem with it.

Now, Windows 8, that was an insult to computer users.

[dhs12345]

And the CEO of the company that pushed these crap releases on the Windows users is now trying to push COVID vaccines and masks and all things leftist.

It’ll be just like his OS releases where the vaccines are not fully tested and the expectation is that the public will be the final test and debug of the vaccines.

BEWARE!!!

[Mr Radical]

The 6 Worst Versions of Windows?
How about the next 6 versions?
It isn’t going to get any better is it?

[gr8eman]

That would be me! Wasn’t there a Windows 98 or something? To my knowledge that’s the worst with XP/Vista tied for second. I will state that Windows 3.1 actually worked...not very well but it at least worked! 98 was the prototype for releasing untested software and having the customers do the beta testing. It was genius from a marketing perspective...having your customers pay you to do your beta testing!

[Seruzawa]

Frankly I’ve never seen any reason to “upgrade” from XP. Once it was SPed it worked just fine.