Top three worse Microsoft Windows. My experience, not others.

[Win2000Fan]

This thread would be really long if I posted my opinion about all of the MS, OS's. So to spare you the pain I limited the number to three. First, I never have used Windows 95 or Vista and both of those OS's do get a lot of negative press but this is my experiences so in all fairness I have no opinion of those two operating systems. Then there is Windows ME. Like I said this is based on my experiences not others and for what ever reason Windows ME was really good to me. ME actually improved my computer experience over Windows 98 SE, which had huge problems of cold crashing my computer to a black screen and the loss of all my fresh information. One of my many guesses as to why I had such good luck with ME, is the computer I built at the time had hardware that ME liked and therefore my problems were reduced till XP came along which changed everything.

1. Windows 8. The number one worse Microsoft Operating System, hands down, in my opinion, was Windows 8. Never was there ever an operating system that made me so red hot angry and use so many curse words than Windows 8 did. When someone has to reach behind their computer and cut the power switch on their power supply to shut off their computer that is not good. Yes I figured out how to shut Win 8 off but that was after I had to get on YouTube and watch someone else. The most unintutive OS I ever experienced. This can go on and on but I will stop here.

2. Windows 98 SE. I have a love hate relationship with this OS. 98 was the first OS that introduced me to more advanced gaming outside of DOS games. It introduced Direct X and this is the OS I played my classic game favorites such as, all three early Quake games, Unreal Tournament, etc. 98 also introduced me to the internet, via a phone modem. So what is my beef you might ask? When 98 crashed it crashed hard. This was when I was writing many important college papers and all that work was now gone due to a serious 98 crash and you never knew when this crash was coming as out of nowhere it would crash.

3. Windows 1 and 2. I mentioned both because they are both so much alike. To this day I can not remember how I acquired these two GUI OS's. It was way back in my early computer experimenting days when I was experimenting with Intels, 286, 386, and 486 processors and many different kinds of software. I may have acquired these from the many different computer nerds I knew and hung with in those days. I so identified with Neo sleeping at his computer and all his gear when I saw the Matrix. Anyway when I saw Windows 1 and 2 I thought what the hell is this? Windows 1 and 2 looked more like a third party DOS shell than anything else. Better yet neither OS did anything. Really nothing.

A last word on Windows 8.1. Please do not confuse Windows 8.1 with Windows 8. Windows 8.1 is a very fun OS to use and I still use it in Oracle's VB as it is so dependable.

What are your thought's. Which Microsoft OS is your least favorite and why?

Like I said this is all my opinion only nothing more. please do not read more into this more than there is. Thanks for reading.

[_I_]

for me

vista,
11,
10,
98 (pre se),
8

[andreasaspenberg575]

windows 8.1 was a lot of trouble initially but, once i installed vistart(windows 7 start menu for other windows versions) it was no longer a problem. i did not dislike any other operating systems. vista was a nightmare at first, because i kept losing my internet connection. once i patched that out however it worked well. windows 3.1 was a slight improvement over windows 3.0. i also used windows 3.11 at school. my biggest problem with windows 10 and 11 is the forced patching. windows 11 i have never had but, the centered start meny is a major turnoff.

[N3tRunn3r]

Top 3

1. Windows 8/8.1
   used for a day only, uninstalled !!
   
   
2. Windows ME
   never used, crashed a lot on friend's PC, Win98 was WAY superior to this
   
   
3. Windows XP, "the" kindergarden pre-school OS . . .
   used Windows 2000 Pro as long as I could, the best Windows OS ever !!

[Master.Constructor]

The only OS I use daily on PC is Win7 and Win8.1

I was hoping Win8.1 would evolve into a replacement for 7 but unfortunately that's not the case. Still looking for a worthy successor and 10/11 seem to be more mess than solution.

Thankfully UpdatePack7 gives Win7 users a monthly update while we wait for something better.

[andreasaspenberg575]

try to download vistart. that gives you a windows 7 start menu in windows 8.1.

[Thermal Lance]

Windows ME.

It's not called the "Mistake Edition" for nothing.

It's basically the still moving corpse of 9x.

[GGcake]

I hear a lot of nightmare stories about Vista, but I liked it and even used it until 2018 without any problems besides the old crusty ass hardware inside barely being able to handle basic things like the internet lol

[Rocco_96]

For me it's:
1. Windows 95
2. Windows 10
3. Windows 11

Windows 95 would crash very often.

Windows 10& 11 I dislike because they have this dumbing down trend that the user has less and less options to configure. Also windows update has become more and more annoying and useless, regularly asking to reboot the computer. It also installs lots of apps you don't need and is always trying to change your default apps back to Microsoft apps. Always telling you to set Bing as your search engine, Edge as your browser. Too much pushing to get Windows 365 and Onedrive subscriptions...

[Master.Constructor]

Windows 8 was a shocking revelation.
I was working in sales when it was launched and we were all a bit stunned by what we saw.

Vista was also uncomfortable but it brought many useful and needed features to Windows.

[mtono]

i first owned windows 95 and since then i tested every windows and i think that windows 7 was the greatest, though i can easily live with windows 11. i use this, because of compatibility to games. just my impression. may be wrong.
cu.

[Andrius227]

Vista was my favourite. It was all new and different. 7,8 and 10 felt like copies of vista, more or less the same, not bad but nothing to be excited about.

The only problem with vista was hardware requirements. You could not simply install it on a Windows XP computer and expect it to run well. But i bought a new PC so it ran perfectly. But it was a little weird, it had 4gb ram, but 32bit windows vista, so it could only use something like 3.2gb ram.

[Lixire]

My least favorite? ME, 8 and the 21H2 build of Win11
ME is basically well known at this point. it was a worse version of 98 that did remove one very important aspect that made 9x OSes somewhat relevant i.e real mode DOS support and at the same time. it was far more unstable and buggy compared to any other Windows release
While it did offer new features which were improved a lot with XP. most people just sticked with 98SE as it was the better option

8... I would be real, I wanted to like 8 at the time due to how fast and stable it was compared to 7 at the time. the UI was simply horrid and Microsoft went out of their way to make sure you use that Metro UI all the time. at its core it was a good OS but if the UX is terrible then its ain't worth the time and Microsoft did realize some of the mistakes and corrected them with 8.1
Funny enough, I did daily drive 8.1 with ClassicShell from 2013 until 2016 and I still think its the fastest modern Windows of all time

11 21H2? I know that RTM builds of most Windows releases are no good. that's not a secret but taking off the drag and drop to the taskbar? constant L3 cache bugs with AMD CPUs and performance were generally worse than 10 for no reason. Thankfully all of it has been corrected with the newer builds but 21H2 was damn sure awful lmao

[skOsH♥]

Windows 8, ME, and Vista were all the best...at being the worst

[Mr White]

Windows 8 was the worst due to the fact it was made for tablets than desktop or laptop users.

[Demon]

Diposting pertama kali oleh r.linder:

From worst to best:
1. ME
2. Vista
3. 8

Very well said. Only you forgot to include the current state of 11....:)

The only reliable and by far best OS's have been XP and 10pro. IMO of course.
10 home or pro is a perfectly modern and fine tuned OS.... Why change anything?
Dump all listed and 11 and stay with 10.

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