Funny

Windows 8 was actually great after the initial issues at launch.

Eh, I’d consider sliding the window a little differently. Command prompt only OS’s like DOS or maybe even BASIC as the “rock.” Windows was more like a Model T car. Make W11 a Pinto or something.

They know we liked Win7. They'll never go back, they'll just keep making it worse for us and more profitable for them.

That's why I switched to Linux Mint a year ago. I feel sorry for people who can't switch for whatever reason.

95 is the stick, ME is the stick up someone’s butt

Windows 95, ME, NT, and 2000 erasure.

And 3.11 for Workgroups.

It's really incredible how Microsoft is trying to drive people away, by:

• Polluting what works.

• Never actually finishing revamps in progress.

• Pushing so much crap even normal users are conditioned to click Microsoft 'features' away as spam.

They don't have to do anything! They could just freeze Windows 11 and gut development beyond security/api/hardware fixes, and rake in business "stuck on win32" dollars for eternity. But no, they are trying their absolute best to push folks to Android/iOS and open a window for stuff like the steam deck.

I bet we aren't far from OEMs even getting sick of it, as shipping (admittedly, trashy self made) linux distros.

I remember when we were a Unix shop (BSD & Linux) sharing space with guys writing code for some kind of printing software (for professional printing shops that did complex format conversions) that apparently absolutely had to be on Windows (because, unclear reasons, nobody would buy a non Windows printing management box, or something).

Anyway, they were writing for one of the early versions of NT, maybe 2000, not sure, and were pulling their hairs out the whole time we were with them.

A classic I remember was "the system will just decide that our driver (pretty much the only thing running) isn't that important, and dump it's priority to the shitter. Once it's there, it's dead in the water and we can't get it active again without physical intervention. We've been talking to Microsoft for weeks to get around this."

I suppose this has been more or less addressed by Microsoft nowadays, but, of course, this kind of thing hasn't been an issue in unixland, like ever. Because it's a system that fucking makes sense. And about the versions of Windows, I stopped using their stuff in the DOS days, so it's not like I even have an opinion.

(and yes, they did have a couple very high end developers, on top of the regular grunts)

Windows peaked at 7, I only moved to Windows 10 when Windows 7 lost support

Windows 12+...

There were four versions that were useful for their time. Accurate.

Win ME is the 98 image but the rock is on the smaller branch

This is why I am on linux.

What about NT?

And it doesn't show on the pictures, but it was always made of rubber.

Where the fuck is Windows 2000 Advanced Server? The shiniest turd of them all

Windows 9 looks nice, I'll take that one

What about Windows ME? - the best version of classic windows.

Why skip 95 and put a blank in for 9. Windows 95/98 are the reason why there is no windows 9. Far too many lazy programmers make software and drivers that abbreviated to windows9 because there were two versions. Still nice try, I guess.