Windows OS from 1990-2015

[Renew Deal]

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1144888-windows-os-history-from-1990-to-2015-an-infographic

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I LOVE the parenthetical remarks!

An excellent overview.

Thank you, my dear Renew Deal.

[hobbit709]

2. Out of all those:

3.1 worked well for it's time
95 worked well after OSR2 came out
98 worked fairly well
ME should never have been released
2000 worked great
XP worked fine after a few teething issues
Vista also should never have been released
7 works well
8/8.1 "Vista with a cellphone interface"
10- M$ wants to take over your computer

Notice they completely skipped 9.

If they run true to form, 11 will probably work.

[Mnpaul]

5. Win 3.1 worked well

but it was made a whole lot better if you had Norton software installed. I miss Norton Desktop. I wish they were still in the business of improving Windows.

I still use a modern clone of Norton Commander in Windows(Pablo Commander).

[yowzayowzayowza]

7. Naw, the progression was...

NT 3.1, 3.51, 4.0 then Win2k .... 3.1, 95, 98, ME were a bunch of thunkin posers. Long live Dave Cutler.

[TygrBright]

3. Loved the oh-so-dry comment on ME... n/t

[gvstn]

4. I guess I'm the only one that didn't hate ME.

It wasn't worth the $49.99 upgrade price from win98 but didn't seem that bad. It worked fine and gave System Restore. I got a free plastic watch in the process but stole Win XP because the upgrade price was too high for the value.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. I notice the RAM/HD footprint info disappeared about 2000 ... nt

[lpbk2713]

8. I have 3.1 and 3.11 around here somewhere.

Also have Win 98, about 25 discs IIRC. All on floppies. I haven't had a PC with a
floppy drive for over ten years or more. Just can't bring myself to throw them out.

[Thor_MN]

9. I installed Windows 2 on a PC to use with an FTIR spectrophotometer back in the day

First Windows software that I ever used. IIRC, the PC was a 286.

[hunter]

10. My first Windows was 3.1, my last 98SE

Before usable MS Windows I was an Atari guy, but I also had IBM & clones running DRDOS and Geoworks.

Before and during Atari days, I used BSD mostly on university computers. BSD was the first "real" operating system I used. (MSDOS doesn't count nor does MS Windows until NT was released.

Switching to Debian from Windows 98SE was like returning home.

I just finished building a new Debian laptop today from a busted and obsolete Windows 7 machine.

It's now my fastest machine, runs like the wind.

The machine was getting to be pretty useless as a Windows machine, which is why it was discarded. Windows 10 would probably choke it. My entire Debian install with all the tools I commonly use, Gimp, Libre Office, etc., is a little over 4 GB.

As a stupid person, I like to keep it simple. The KISS principle.