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!
I hated 98, too. You had to reboot to change the hard IP address.