| bananaking21 said: im surprised nobody said windows Vista or Zune yet |
Had the Zune and the iPod come out at the same time, the Zune would have won. But without Zune, Microsoft would not have gotten Windows Phone, which they desperately needed to compete with Apple and Google.
Windows Vista was no where near as bad everyone believes it was. It did consume slightly more memory than Windows 7, but in general it was just as good. The problem with Vista was the architecture of drivers changed in order to make the OS more stable, it's actually been a process that Windows has been going through since Windows 98. It began in Windows ME, then some major advancements were made in Windows XP, than once again in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and again in Windows 8. The cause of 99% of BSODs are driver issues, so it's an area where Microsoft decided to focus on improving considerably. In order to do that though, they had to rest control of developing the driver from the hardware manufacturer to them. In turn, what the hardware developer uses now is really just a stub that lets the OS know what features it supports.
