On Oct 18, 4:15*pm, FrozenNorth
wrote:
On 10/18/11 2:42 PM, Leon wrote:







On 10/18/2011 11:03 AM, Jack wrote:
* On 10/18/2011 8:34 AM, Leon wrote:
* On 10/17/2011 10:45 PM, Jack wrote:
* On 10/17/2011 4:20 PM, wrote:
* Jack wrote:

* I think the first (significant) version of windows that (didn't) work
* was 3.1.

I had win 3.0 and for me the free 3.1 upgrade was a significant
improvement. I never had any thing earlier than 3.0.

I don't think that changed even a little until XP came out,
* which works marginally if you don't mind occasional meltdowns and
* periodic registry explosions.

GoBack saved my butt on many occasions.

XP still is not a patch on the ass of OS/2
* WARP. I never used Win Vista ver 7 so can't comment other than retailers
* were offering XP and free future upgrades because Vista sucked. Hard to
* imagine it sucked worse than previous versions of Win, but that was the
* word I got.

Every one complains about something. I had the most luck with XP and
because it was such a vast improvement over 95 and 98 in being stable
many did found it not necessary to change or upgrade. IIRC ME, 2000, and
Vista did not have enough persuasion to change many XP users minds. Had
Microsoft continued to support XP it might still be very popular. I am
using 7 now and it seems as stable as XP but has a lot of short cuts
that make using it a bit simpler to use. I don't care for Vista my self
but every one that uses it likes it, but...I think every one that I know
that uses it did had not used XP extensively. I think since XP it all
depends on what you are used to using.

I used and supported everything from various flavours of DOS and Windows
in a corporate environment. *XP was by far the best and easiest, over
its predecessors. *Vista was fine, given the right hardware, MS
seriously messed up on its minimum hardware requirements, given the
right hardware Vista ws fine, but Win7 is a joy to use.

Win8 looks like it is going to be another bucket load of crap though, at
least according to the latest developers release. *Had it running in a
virtual machine, couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

That's like me and MacOS10 LION. A genuine WTF is THIS escaped from my
mouth....loud.
Loaded Snow Leopard and restored from my back up drive. Took over an
hour with a big sigh of relief.
Why can't these people leave well enough alone?