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people are forgetting w11 will be the useless windows version.

everyone knows that between actual windows versions (3, 95, vista, xp, 10) there are the BS money making by selling flashy badges to PC OEM manufacturers (98, me, forgot the name , 8)

so obviously w11 can be safely ignored by everyone.




Isn't Vista the arch nemesis of 7? Also 95 is not too great but 98 is definitely not the bad cop, especially SE. Windows ME on the other hand...

2000 is also pretty cool, but didn't show up on the list, and not sure where the NT releases 3 and 4 would go.


I thought 95 was better than 98 - faster and less bloated. Just the USB support was lacking but OSR2 fixed that mostly.

2000 was definitely better than XP in my book. Of course ME was a complete and total turd. But it was only built in a couple months after MS changed their mind about Windows 2000 personal edition.

But really in my book XP was Windows 2000 Bloatware Edition. Same with 98 over 95.

With Vista it went the opposite way though, Vista was all glossy/bloaty and Win7 fixed that. And don't start me on Windows 8, that was just a terrible POS on the desktop, with its huge start screen. Nice idea on a tablet, terrible on the desktop.


Microsoft can't afford to have a useless version, there are now viable alternatives to Windows.




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