Best Windows Ever ?

Subliminal Aura · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:11

For some reason I am inclined to say windows NT (windows 2000 was also nice and light pity about the bugs though).

So what version of Windows has done it for you ?

NathanE · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:19

Vista and before that 2000 and before that Windows 95 OSR 2.

marc2003 · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:21

2000 for me. it was a huge leap in stability from what went before.

SideWinder · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:27

XP.

I have only used W98se, XP and Vista.

lemonkettaz · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:29

I never had any problems EVER with win95

touch · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:34

i'v only ever properly used XP.
Had the odd look at other peoples puters running 95/98 and i'v had a little play with vista, but not enough experiance to say which is best.

t31os · 17 Apr 2007 at 18:39

XP imo.... used 95, 98, 98se, ME, 2000...... and had a little play on Vista, just seems hit and miss to wether it will run well at the moment, much like XP originally was for a lot of people.

NathanE · 17 Apr 2007 at 19:02

lemonkettaz said:
I never had any problems EVER with win95

Have you ever tried resizing an Explorer window full of icons?

zetec452 · 17 Apr 2007 at 19:05

XP is the best windows operating system I've used. Although I didn't really get down and dirty with windows 95 and NT as they were a bit before my interest with PC's.

Tunney · 17 Apr 2007 at 19:13

XP. Fantastic driver support, very stable, consistent UI and lasted a very long time before being replaced by Microsoft. I've experienced more blue screens and crashes in the month I used Vista than I did in five years with XP.

Avalon · 17 Apr 2007 at 19:22

Win2k was the first time MS ever released a stable OS with propper support and usability for a home user ... and it was a business OS! I've owned/used every version of windows with the exception of Me since 3.1 but it was the first time I ever felt I got value for money. XP was more of the same.

Will_3rd · 17 Apr 2007 at 19:25

XP without a doubt, having used 95, ME and Vista Beta 2

cavemanoc · 17 Apr 2007 at 19:41

Used them all since 3.0 - (apart from ME - dodged a bullet there

) Have to say 98 SE was awesome, but XP sp2 was without a doubt the best for me.

Ace Modder · 17 Apr 2007 at 19:47

3.11 ***.

Never saw screen of death, mind was prob due to it not actually being a OS

jackassuk56 · 17 Apr 2007 at 20:30

2000 pro realy good and fast.

me bleh, i had more fun ******* in a pond than playing games on that os

xp is good, have used vista but i dont like the incompatibility issues.

jackassuk56

|Ric| · 17 Apr 2007 at 21:09

I would say XP because it hasn't given me too many problems, but arguably I turn so much off it's not that different to using 2000.
As long as it's not ME I pretty much happy

Sinque · 17 Apr 2007 at 21:09

Tunney said:
XP. Fantastic driver support, very stable, consistent UI and lasted a very long time before being replaced by Microsoft. I've experienced more blue screens and crashes in the month I used Vista than I did in five years with XP.

SexyGreyFox · 17 Apr 2007 at 21:18

cavemanoc said:
Used them all since 3.0 - (apart from ME - dodged a bullet there ) Have to say 98 SE was awesome, but XP sp2 was without a doubt the best for me.

I could have wrote that.

The problem with 3.0 and 3.11 was that it was easier sometimes to boot into DOS and do things from there, especially games and the odd word processing.
You could see that this windows would catch on especially when I got Corel Draw 3 on 30 floppies and Win 3.11 only came on 6 floppies.
Because 98SE was so good it must have been at least a year before I decided to go XP when I built a new machine and I can honestly see it being at least a year before I try Vista.

bitboy · 17 Apr 2007 at 21:32

I have to go with the one I'm using now - XP. If there was a better OS that ran well on my hardware I'd be using it now. Perhaps if I had a faster PC I'd say Vista, as I do use it on some other systems and love it, but for now XP gets the thumbs up

DAS · 17 Apr 2007 at 21:35

Stained glass.