Question:
What is the worst Microsoft Operating System to date?

Choices:
Windows 3.1 or 95?
Windows 98 or 98SE?
Windows ME?
Windows NT or 2000?
Windows XP Home or PRO?

 

From what I've heard, not rhu experience, Win ME is the worst! I've never used it, and never want to! lol

chris

That's what I've heard too but so many here beg to differ with me! One guy at a BestBuy told me there are some clean coppies and some aren't! Who knows!

ivnj

Not a stand-alone operating system, but i'd have to go with "Bob"

What is BOB?

ivnj

It was a GUI that operated on top off Win95. Instead of the desktop style of Windows & Mac, it organized things as rooms in a house. It was included in the first version of Win95, but it was such a failure that it wasn't included in later versions of Win95.

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Originally posted by ivnj:
What is BOB?

ivnj

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Screenshots of Bob 1.0:
http://toastytech.com/guis/bob2.html

Rover reminds me of something but I just cant remember what....

I use XP home on my laptop, and 2000 on my pc. I really hate xphome, so user friendly.

ME was by far the worst and was really a stop gap marketing measure. 98 was not too bad and fairly stable. XP Pro is very good IMO with XP home not nearly as good (I have both on diffent computers). But even with all the complaining everyone likes to do about Microsoft, they have at least established a recognized standard that platform coders and others can all recognize and conform to. There would be far fewer products out there if we had a plethora of operating systems that writers had to conform to.

I am using Windows ME at this moment. I understand why you guys always say Windows ME is the worst OS Microsoft made so far. It's considered as "blue screen operating system." I need to download all those patches released by Microsoft in order to fix most of the problems.

I'm using ME too, and either I don't know the difference between a good operating system or a bad one , or I've been extremely lucky......no real problems using it at all. Knock on wood, I guess.

Since posting about ME on this thread last year, I have obtained a copy of ME, and even though there have been some problems, nothing very serious has happened. I put it on my backup computer, and it has done well so far. My backup has a P2 266mhz processor, 80 MB RAM, and a 10 Gig HD. It does pretty well on the net too. Of course, its an IBM 300GL Desktop, and is very contrary to any changes made internally to hardware. Every change has to be verified in the BIOS, before the pc will boot. Kinda ridiculous really, but oh well.

chris

I have been reading through this thread, and it does make interesting reading. We almost all take the operating system for granted until it screws up, which it does on occasion.

However, careful analysis of my BSODs over the years have forced me to draw the following conclusions:

• The operating system is not at fault
  
• The hardware manufacturers need to do a better job at writing driver software
  
• I should have spent more time on securing my PC from malicious code
  
• That I should have spent more time on physical maintenance and taken the fur balls out of the fans
  

I estimate that more than half of my BSODs have been caused by graphics card driver errors and Nvidia have been the biggest culprits, and spyware comes a very close second.

Since my initial foray into computing security, I am constantly amazed at how much trash gets installed on peoples' pcs without them knowing

In terms of ease of USE, then windows 2000 and XP has to come tops, but don't forget that the operating systems usually work around the specifications of the computers available at the time. Hardware has moved along a long way since the 386 and will continue to do so

I use windows xp, and its great!

Everyone keeps saying that it is this or that OS that is the worst, when in actual fact it is always the 'latest' version of the OS that is the worst. You would think that companies like Microsoft would come up with software that is actually very secure and protects against any kind of malicious intrusion, but that is never the case. We are actually now seeing the release of Service Pack 2 for windows XP, something that would not be occuring if the original software was in any way secure. Dont get me worng, there are always good OS's that are easy to use and fun, but easy to use also means easier to hack. If the perfect operating system was ever created, then no one woulod ever have to buy another operating system and Software companies would very quickly have to scale back their operations. The perfect operating system is still a long way away. We will have to wait and see just how close to that the next version of windows is. I suspect that it will still be a long way away and that we will have to go on using inadequate operating systems that 'just' meet our requirements.

I think the guy at Best Buy is full of it. There are no differences in the "copies". The deciding factor is the hardware it was run on, and if the company had produced WHQL drivers for their products.

Instability, however, was a common problem through every installation.

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Originally posted by ivnj:
That's what I've heard too but so many here beg to differ with me! One guy at a BestBuy told me there are some clean coppies and some aren't! Who knows!

ivnj
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I can't wrap my mind around your argument at all. There will never be a "perfect" operating system. Ever. The companies that produce the operating systems are businesses. A perfect product, would be equivalent to slitting their own throats.

Secondly, there is no such thing as perfect software. Vulnerabilities will always exist. There is no way around this, it is an accepted part of software development.

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Originally posted by Rarius:
Everyone keeps saying that it is this or that OS that is the worst, when in actual fact it is always the 'latest' version of the OS that is the worst. You would think that companies like Microsoft would come up with software that is actually very secure and protects against any kind of malicious intrusion, but that is never the case. We are actually now seeing the release of Service Pack 2 for windows XP, something that would not be occuring if the original software was in any way secure. Dont get me worng, there are always good OS's that are easy to use and fun, but easy to use also means easier to hack. If the perfect operating system was ever created, then no one woulod ever have to buy another operating system and Software companies would very quickly have to scale back their operations. The perfect operating system is still a long way away. We will have to wait and see just how close to that the next version of windows is. I suspect that it will still be a long way away and that we will have to go on using inadequate operating systems that 'just' meet our requirements.

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Seems you got my argument perfectly!