| Rpruett said: It's garbage. The demise of the desktop PC is incredibly exaggerated. Laptops stand to reason to be next item to disappear. If you want the most power, speed it's still contained within a desktop. Windows 8 is an abortion of an OS. It falls in the long line of mid-tier garbage OS's between the quality ones 95- 98 - Win ME- XP - Vista - 7 - Win 8 - ???. It's an OS built around tablets and cellphones with little thought of it's overall implementation. |
You're forgetting Windows NT and Windows 2000 in that list.
Windows XP on release was essentially a re-skinned Windows 2000, heck even the drivers are interchangable, however that changed after a few service packs.
Plus, Windows XP was problematic for everyone moving off the Win9x ecosystem and onto NT, Drivers, software and games was a big gamble to even get working, but people seem to forget how much of a pain XP was on release because it was around for such a long time.
So in the end...
Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.
Windows Vista I didn't highlight because it suffered the *exact* same issues as XP on release, I.E. Slower than the previous OS, limited compatability with older Drivers, software and games, but matured a few years after release.
Heck, nVidia was a cause for something like 30% of the blue-screens Vista got.
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