Best Windows Ever ?

Burnsy2023 · 18 Apr 2007 at 16:31

Sone said:
how can people remeber 98 so well, it was terriable. Remeber when me and a fewm ates had lan partys we had to reboot before every game and someone normally still crashed.

As soon as we all went win2k problems dissappeared (although half-life didn't run well before a few patches)

I agree, I don't understand the nostalgia with 98, it was awful and I loved the upgrade to 2000.

Burnsy

RetiredGreyFox · 18 Apr 2007 at 16:49

Albaba said:
MS-DOS 2.25

MS DOS 6.2 was very stable.

NathanE · 18 Apr 2007 at 17:01

Yeah but only until some other program wrote over the DOS kernel in memory

Very easily done...

millsy888 · 18 Apr 2007 at 17:07

started on 98se, tried ME (how bad was that!!!) but i gota say that since installing XP i've never had such a smooth running machine.

P.S trying vista on dual boot atm, i can see me liking it a lot it seems to be running quite smoothly atm, but i'm not ready to divorce XP just yet

mysticsniper · 18 Apr 2007 at 17:09

It has still got to be XP for me. Far too early to decide on Vista. So in this order

1 XP Pro
2 Vista?
3 98se

ots3go · 18 Apr 2007 at 17:19

XP SP2

Got a semi tbh...

Kezmo · 18 Apr 2007 at 17:28

ots3go said:
XP SP2

Got a semi tbh...

haha

NVIDIA_x64 · 18 Apr 2007 at 17:36

XP Pro X64 SP2 is da best coz I think it is the fastest for games.

FirebarUK · 18 Apr 2007 at 17:55

Windows ME. I just love how it made what was essentially 98 look like Win 2k in some ways. It blew me away

gareth170 · 18 Apr 2007 at 18:33

ive used windows 3.0, 3.11, 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, xp64bit, server 2003, vista

for me its vista>xp>2000>2003>xp 64bit>ME>NT>98>95>3.11>3.0

Burnsy2023 · 18 Apr 2007 at 18:42

gareth170 said:
ive used windows 3.0, 3.11, 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, xp64bit, server 2003, vista

for me its vista>xp>2000>2003>xp 64bit>ME>NT>98>95>3.11>3.0

Not sure about your placing of 2003 or NT4 in that equation. :confused:

Burnsy

zetec452 · 18 Apr 2007 at 18:46

burnsy2023 said:
Not sure about your placing of 2003 or NT4 in that equation.

Burnsy

Indeed. If you are comparing server software Windows Server 2003 is about 5000000 million trillion billion times better than Server 2000.

Personally I don't see how you can compare XP, 95, ME to server software such as NT, 2003 etc. They are very different in there role on hardware.

NathanE · 18 Apr 2007 at 18:46

Server OSes need lovin' too ya' know

gareth170 · 18 Apr 2007 at 19:20

burnsy2023 said:
Not sure about your placing of 2003 or NT4 in that equation.

Burnsy

im just going by what my needs was to the software i needed.. yes 2003 is better then 2000 but i only use 6 server softwares that will run on xp, 2003, 2000, NT. i found windows 2000 ran them better

NathanE · 18 Apr 2007 at 19:37

2000 has pretty basic thread scheduling behaviour compared to 2003. If your server has modern processors (multi core or hyper threading) then you will want to be running it on 2003.

Glaucus · 18 Apr 2007 at 19:51

best windows ever is vista, how can anyone say anything different?

marc2003 · 18 Apr 2007 at 19:58

AcidHell2 said:
best windows ever is vista, how can anyone say anything different?

do i detect a hint of sarcasm there?

moid · 18 Apr 2007 at 20:01

XP all the way.

Was such a difference when it was released.

I've gone through windows 3.11 all the way up (although yet to experience Vista - lets wait for it to become useable first)

xb8browney · 18 Apr 2007 at 20:05

Vista>XP>98SE

Participant · 18 Apr 2007 at 20:28

Vista is fantastic and can only get better. In 6 months people will have forgotten about XP.