BTW, I have 3 desktops that run Win98, WinXP and Win7 (formerly Win Vista). Win98 continues to be the most robust and trouble-free, though too dated for newer applications. Win7 crashes fairly often on my labtop PC and occasionally on my desktop PC. So far, Win7 has proven to be the least robust, least reliable OpSys I’ve used (and the Win7 Windows Explorer is inferior to the WinXP version...has trouble finding things). XP has been the all-around best OpSys I’ve used.
Win8? Used it the least. Would be great on the iPad or iPod. Sucks on a desktop.
p.s. I’m typing on my laptop...these little flat keys slow my typing speed way down from the larger, more usable desktop keyboards.
I find 7 to be pretty solid. My home computer had a lot of issues with Flash, then I uninstalled all things Adobe and it hasn’t crashed again, I rely on Chrome’s internal Flash for stuff. I actually find 7’s explorer to be superior, I really like the navigation bar, I don’t do much finding. 8 has some good stuff, but it’s a different way of thinking that I’m not 100% sold on, interesting ideas. It’s clearly oriented to the non-power user that generally only runs half a dozen apps, give them all a tile and don’t worry about anything else.
I agree 98 was a fine system — it’s especially impressive when you look at the minimum requirements for what it is (32-bit OS w/ full graphical-environment).