Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME were the last of the DOS based Windows operating systems.
The NT family of Windows went from NT 3.6, NT 4.0, Win2k (NT 5), Windows XP (NT 6), Windows 7 (NT 7), and lastly Windows 8 (NY 8?).
Windows NT started out as a joint venture with IBM whose early version was OS/2. The reason why everyone loved XP so much was it was really no longer Windows, but NT that looked like Windows 98 but ran like NT.
Actually Windows NT started as version 3.1 and it even had OS/2 error messages. Windows 3.51 SP5 was the one that people had confidence in. Windows NT 4.0 looked exactly like Windows 95 which was based on DOS as was 98 & ME. Win2k came out with Active directory instead of the domain system and with AD and XP, you had pretty good control. XP put a prettier face on Windows 2000 Pro and gave us x64 support.
When was the time you saw a running netware box and they owned the server market NDS worked well if you knew it and kept it patched but their TCP/IP stack was pretty worthless if I remember right in that it couldn’t handle NDS so you still needed IPX in the beginning.
I loved Netware but I saw where it was going.
I’ve probably got a couple 250 user Netware 3.x and 4.x server.exes and license disks somewhere that I got free at a conference.
I like Windows 7.0 64bit. I have no idea how ver8 is but it doesn’t sound worth going to and I’m going to have to reach across my keyboard to run a touchscreen, seriously? Please tell it still me it still supports a mouse.