The Top 10 Worst Operating Systems of All Time
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Server 2008!
I think vista had one of the better start meus.
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Hey'up Dan lad, why didn't you do a top 10 of YOUR most hated OS'? Then maybe down the line do 2 top 10's of viewers most beloved and hated OS'?
Where was TempleOS?
@@JamieCrookes TempleOS is never gonna be anyone's daily OS, but it's real value (imho), lay in providing us a window into the mind of a troubled fellow soul.
I had to re-install Win98 so often, I still have the serial number memorized.
Xp x64 aka xp pro 64 bit.. I had that and my 32bt aka x86 edition product keys
Must have been your hardware. 98 and 98SE were great. Back then, I only reinstalled when I upgraded to the new OS.
That's heroic
@@toddnolastname4485 Great in some respects, but not in start up time... (or stability between programs or processes). The start up time was really like a bad joke, especially compared to the *instant on* computers we used in the 1980s.
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My (least) favorite thing about Windows 8 and the "Metro UI" was that Microsoft _forced it upon server users in Windows Server 2012_ (the server version of Windows 8.)
Doing server remote management over VNC, over a slow internet connection, was *PAINFUL* in Server 2012. "Crap, I don't have a desktop shortcut for that, prepare for slow full screen redraw!"
Did you get to have Classic Shell running to improve the situation? BTW was CS compatible with Server '12?
me
Or just run it in "Desktop" mode. Really, I don't get how supposed IT professionals missed that.
Win Server 2012 with Metro makes me wonder wtf was wrong with MS executives in that era.
@@wton The full screen start menu made me rationally angry. It was terrible over RDP sessions. “Want to start a program? PREPARE FOR SLOWNESS!”
I was fortunate enough to hang onto XP in order to avoid Vista. However, one day I bought a new laptop and it had Windows 7 pre-installed on it. The first thing that struck me as being positive about Windows 7 was the Aero-peek design of the UI and the beautiful gradients. The first (and probably only) thing that frustrated me was how "Program Files" had been split up to keep x86 and x64 binaries separate, as well as their respective "Program Data" folders. This changed the way my own software was compiled and deployed, but I got used to it. I still use Windows 7 for my personal dev box, and it's still as reliable as ever. IMHO Windows 7 is still the best version of Windows Microsoft has ever released. Windows 10 was a whole different story. When Windows 10 won't boot anymore, it WON'T BOOT ANYMORE, and good luck repairing the MBR and system partitions to get it back to where it should be. Also, the Windows 10 UI strikes me as being lifeless and bland, with Microsoft doing away with most gradient effects and replacing them with ugly, flat, two-dimensional tiles and lifeless fonts. My final question is WHY is Windows 10 so bloated and resource intensive? Linux running a graphical UI requires a small percentage of the disc space required to run Windows 10.
Back when Windows 10 was brand new, I remember it was a gamble on whether it would start again after shutting down my computer. Sometimes it would just grenade itself for no reason. It even did that years after release, but it wasn't as common. Windows Aero is still a favorite of mine to this day too. At least Windows 11 is better than Windows 10 in that regard.
Not gonna read a novel for opinion on an os.
Windows 11 looks a lot better
@@trabant601e One thing that royally pisses me off about Win11 is how you have to keep clicking on additional options to get to the traditional Cut, Copy, and Paste options in the Explorer context menu. Sure, I could use the hotkeys but I prefer to use the context menu. What about users who aren't familiar with using hotkeys? Whoever decided it was a good idea to hide those options by default is an idiot.
@@RebuttalRecords they aren't hidden for me, if I hover my mouse over an item the options appear on the top
Back when I worked for a company that made dev tools for Microsoft OSes, some of the older crusty devs explained it to me this way: NT was the A team. 9x was the, "mmm, yeah, don't want that guy on my team - he'll bung it up" team.
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I remember on of the selling points of Vista was the widgets you could run on the side. Then one day, the widgets were a huge security problem, then they said, we aren't going to fix it, it was just removed in security update.
What happened to the third party widgets? Did anyone pay for them?
@@treehugger3615 I think the widgets as a whole had a vulnerability, regardless of who made them, the actual widget *system* was flawed in execution.
@@AraiDigital I'll go one better; the entire windows system itself, has been flawed in execution. The greed which kept new bells and whistles front and center, while not fixing the underlying problems in the OS, is what has perpetually kept windows from ever becoming a great program. The incredible bloat of windows, as well as the intentionally hiding so much in an obscure 'registry', simply makes it a non starter for serious users.
@@d.e.b.b5788 Lawdy, that damned registry. I consider myself an advanced user and have worked as IT support, though not always for Windows. The complexity of trying to tease out a problem, and then resolve it, is insane. You think you've found the right entry for something, then discover that there was a connection somewhere that has now made your system unstable. I'm grateful that I haven't had to dive into it in years. My current system is stable and I rarely add new software, which was the cause of most of my past ventures. It is approximately 5 years old now, and I hope I can keep it going another 5. Compared to current systems, the specs may seem weak, but all my software runs smoothly.
@@d.e.b.b5788 You have hit the nail on the head! "the entire windows system itself, has been flawed in execution" The "incredible bloat", the registry, the incompatibilities, and so on mean that almost ANY other OS is preferable for the desktop. Absolutely Linux for a server!
My buddy got his hands on a vista beta, allegedly. And according to him, there was a beta version of Vista that was AMAZING. He never upgraded it to the full release and used it for all of high school. He swore by it all the time
Vista was the reason I switched to Mac in 2008! Windows outlook stopped working and my entire adobe Creative Suite stopped working, I tried over and over again to reinstall them, but to no avail. I decided to try Mac, an OS I openly trashed at the time. To my surprise it was lightning fast, ran all the programs I needed and still use.
I switched to Mac while trying to use Windows 8 while working on a masters.
My experience goes back to 1963 on the IBM 1620 (20k of memory and 2 meg of disk) but it allowed batching ONE job at a time. It actually worked running fortram and SPS - an early and rudimentary assembler. Ulike later computers - the 1620 and the 1401 I worked on later actually exected its instruction set, not simulated it in a RISC computer. These computers were discrete components on printed circuit boards, many of them on a frame called a gate, with wires between them. The basic 1620 had three gates about 3 x 4 feet each. When they added a disk drive they added a small gate inside - actually drilled holes in the chassis with an electric drill to mount it! Then i hit the big time in 1965 with three IBM man systems for the S/360 line, TOS, DOS and OS. Tape Operating System was an IBM release that was primarily to provide a platfrom for people to start developing programs, mainly in cobol and assembler for DOS and OS that were not ready yet. DOS had a supervisor (Kernel) that could be as small as 6k, but most were 8k. We were on a 64k S/360 - 8k Supervisor, 8k online inquiry program leaving 56k for batch processing. Many of our ptograms had overlays, segments that were successively loaded. DOS/VS (limited to one address space of 16M) came out and later DOS/VSE (about 1980 with max of one address spaece of 4G) allowing virtual storage and words like paging, thrashing and Least recently used, and swap came in. A little later I moved to larger facility and hit OS, now known as Multiple Virtual Systems MVS/VS and later VSE which could have each process having 4G of address apace - about 1985. In August 1999 in another role I helped move a company from DOS/VSE - which was expiring before Y2K) to a parent company MVS/VSE.
Not quite as far back, but I did work on a 1401, 360. I remember placing the startup code in the I/O buffer to save memory on the 360 (Assembly). The introduction of VM/370 was a godsend, made several patches to both DOS 26.2 and VSE for improvements. Fascinating how capable those (relatively) insanely expensive systems were. Lease prices were tens of 1000's per month. It's easy to take all advancements with a grain of salt with that background.
Shit, I was born in 63!👶 I got my first PC a Sinclair z81 in 1981, and hardly used it for being slower than writing by hand... I had a few 2,3, and 486's, a Macintosh Lisa (Still have it but won't boot the OS anymore), and AMD K's and a few Athlon's too. I really only became a power user with Windows 3.1 and a GUI🥴.
Some 15 years ago, when my OS was Windows 7, I just got too fed up with MS and literally nuked it and shredded the CD and switched to Linux cold turkey!🤬 I put myself through Linux boot camp and learned it rather quick for having no Windows to fall back on, and have been Loving it ever since.🥳🐧BTW I use Arch!😜🐧
I just built A wicked system with an AMD 7500X, 64 GiB of RAM, and two swift WD Black NVME's, but held off on getting a better graphics card than the one I swapped from my old i5 system because the prices are still too unjustifiably insane!
@@Bob-of-Zoid I too got bit by tbe Linux bug back in 2004. Work PC had XP, couldnt change that, but i FDISKed my home pc (Celeron Coppermine) and installed Fedora Core 1. Never looked back. A P4 (intels biggest piece of shit IMHO) then a Core i3, and now I'm on Fedora 31 and probably due for and upgrade. I only kept the Win7 partition for Autocad, but now Dassault gives us Draftsight for Linux and I'm a happy camper.
@@johnclement5903 You mean you got bit by a penguin!🐧 HAIL TUX!😂 I have tried FreeCAD and it's pretty powerful, but not necessarily as easy to use. I kind of been putting off learning it, because my wish of buying a CNC Router is not tenable at the moment. Over the years that I have tried it on and off, it has improved a great deal. I checked out "Draftsight" but it's proprietary not FOSS, and there's zero Linux anything on their site. It all points at Windows and MAC OS exclusively. So either you are using it on Windows, or you are speaking of another software.
There are a few supposedly good online CAD/CAM tools, but putting your designs you may want to patent, or protect for any reason, on some companies servers is trouble waiting to happen. I can't wait to hear the news when a bunch of people find out their patent was patented by someone else, or their entire business model was copied marketed and released before they had a chance too, and found out it was because they did everything with google doc's and google is in the business (Through "Affiliates") of using others hard work to their advantage, and that those they rip off blindly handed over their whole freaking business and all data associated for not reading and understanding their EULA!
My Business is nearly 100% self contained. I don't do any other services than email, a host for my website, and an internet provider. I don't do cloud, or software services of any kind, and never will!
Windows 10 still has a split personality. It's like Windows 7 with Windows 8 glued on top. The Windows 10 control panel for example, doesn't include all the settings needed, and the system resorts to the classic control panel whenever you need to change any more advanced settings. The main selling points of Windows 10 are DirectX12 and optimisations to system boot, and honestly, they don't really make up for all the downsides.
Idk, it starts up fast and plays games pretty well. Win7 took way too long to start up.
Wrong. Someone here isn't a power user. Windows 7 constantly crashed and was even more difficult to find settings for. Windows 10 is BY FAR the most user friendly and stable.
Rebecca you really need to spend much, much more time with Windows 10, preferring it over Windows 7 speaks volumes in your familiarity with the OS
After using Win10, I don't think I could go back to Win7. Win10 does a ton more than 7 did, is more powerful, and is more secure. It's better than 7 in soooooo many ways.
@@soulintake Ahh yes, the old "You don't like something I like, so hence you must be an inferior user," argument. I'm sorry, but it doesn't work like that. I don't doubt that you like it, but I don't. And it has nothing to do with skill levels.
Windows 7 was a breath of fresh air. It felt like an apology for every OS that came before it. I miss it dearly, and curse it's loss every time I uninstall TEAMS AGAIN?! WHY?!
Teams is junk. Although, after thinking about it, New Teams is quite -decent- workable.
The second PC I bought with my own money was running Vista and I basically never had any problem, always felt like a great OS to me and I actually missed quite a few things when I finally upgraded to 7 especially the look. Granted I came pretty late to the party and with a 4 core processor and I think 4GB of RAM and I was using it almost exclusively for games.
Vista never had issues if you built for vista, my own machine was pretty much the best you could buy as of December 2006 (and the CPU got upgraded as soon as there was a quad core 2 extreme which happened in 2007). I also had 2 dual 8800 gts gfx cards, 4gb of ram (think I had 8gb at the end of 2007 when I got the new cpu so I already had more memory than most users at the time unless we're talking eec memory users) That PC ($7,876.47) gave me so much entertainment than any game console ever did (ok, the ps2 was a banger, the 360 also was pretty damn stacked in 2007 as well as PS3 but the 360/ps3 was the last GOOD console gaming generation.. it's sucked since) You also gotta realize I was only 17 at the time (jan 2007), so $8k was a lot of money and I was screamed at by my parents because college was coming up and I just bought kick ass PC components (hindsight College was a waste of money and I don't recommend college unless it's a trained and needed position like a dr, lawyer, etc.. everything else can be learned on your own) That PC lasted me until LGA 2011 which I think came out at the tail end of 2011 or early 2012.. Now obv I upgraded the CPU and gpu a few times but honestly that system kept up for a good solid 5 years! In 2012 I went with a i7 3820 (I originally was gonna upgrade this later but never happened but I did get a stable 4.5ghz out of it), 16gb of ddr3 (eventually 64gb), 5x 2tb hdd, 4x 500gb ssd, 1x 2tb ssd(main os/programs), gtx 680, 3x samsung 24' 120hz 3d panels (I can't remember the actual product name but they were 3d tn panels that ran at 120hz). I don't think I upgraded my gpu until I noticed severe fps issues at 1080p high settings.. think I upgraded to a Titan or a Titanx.. it was a titan (which then got upgraded to gtx 1080) and now I'm on a 3070ti (that's mainly cause it was impossible to get ANY gpu at the time.. prob won't upgrade until a 5080/90 or see how amd is doing.
Once hardware caught up Vista was a great OS. The problem was that most of the PCs people were using at the time it was released weren't really up to the task. It needed a multicore CPU with a gigabyte of RAM and a video card with 3D acceleration to run well and those are things most people didn't have yet. Windows 7 was only a minor update to Vista and it was hugely popular.
My favorite "bad Windows" story was from when I was doing on-site computer repair. One of my clients was a lawyer. She was using an ancient Windows Me computer in early 2007. It was dog slow, and of course it was horribly out of date. The big problem was that the court reporting software she used to get transcripts from the court, was upgraded to a new version; and that version no longer supported Windows 9x. Well, she had to have access to court transcripts, so she had to upgrade. I broke this news to her, told her that while it would be _possible_ to upgrade the copy of Windows on her computer, it would be far too slow for Windows XP to run reasonably.
So she went out and bought a brand new computer - and called me back a few days later.
First problem, she had bought the absolute cheapest brand-new computer she could find. It was dog slow.
Second problem, it came with then-brand-spanking-new Windows Vista. That made the slow computer even slower. The computer *barely* met Windows Vista's minimum requirements (the minimum 512 MB RAM, whatever the slowest-currently-available processor was, probably an already-out-of-date AMD Duron,) and came preloaded with tons of bloatware. It literally took over half an hour to go from power-on to a "usable" desktop. (Good thing I billed by the hour.) And then the hard drive would thrash for another 15-20 minutes, the system barely usable. I immediately threw in another stick of RAM from my parts box and uninstalled all the bloatware. That got it to "minimum actual usable" state.
Went to install the new version of the court reporting software.......... "This operating system is not supported." While Me was too _old_ to run it, Vista was too *new*.
Had her return the system and buy an older-but-still-in-stock XP model. Rarely had to go back after that.
xD
I had a similar issue supporting an architect. There was just a couple pieces of software they had to be able to use. Some time around 2010 we still had to use xp on a virtual machine to run that 1 program he would have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to replace. He retired before having to do that.
After that when someone askes ‘what computer should I get?’ I ask them what software will be installed on it.
That's great. I'm definitely glad you're billed by the hour. It's hard for me to imagine someone being a competent lawyer and being so cheap that they'd refuse to buy even a mid-range PC.
Did you ever try partitioning or adding a separate drive for storage? It also seems like she might have had about 2,000 documents on her desktop, which would account for the very slow startup.
@@encycl07pedia- She was actually SUPER organized. And mostly “offline.” She only used the computer for exactly the hat was needed for technical reasons. (The online recordings/transcripts.)
Lawyers also bill by the hour. Maybe she's smarter than you think.
I saw your title of this video and thought "oh sure." I worked as a system admin from 1990 through 2017 and saw most of the Windows OS's mentioned, and you and your subscribers are absolutely correct. I recall the sheer frustration with some of those mentioned. I think back of the amount of time I spent trying to get programs to run and developing a true dislike for Microsoft.
I was in the Windows 8 beta group. When the beta first came out I immediately complained and said "I do not want my computer to be a better phone". Within a matter of minutes, maybe seconds, I was booted from the group. Like almost instantly.
That wasn't a good reason to be booted. Maybe you had a better idea of how the GUI was supposed to look and work. Maybe your ideas were better than the mess that ended up being win 8.
@@jamesphillipshort It made me laugh. I did not care at all. But it shows the attitude of the Windows developers at the time.
My main gripe with Vista was that it was so massive you needed at least a gig of ram to run it. That's a tall order at the time for a broke college student. Lol. The laptop my dad got me came with Vista and 512mb ram. It was so slow, and crashed so much. I had a buddy put XP on it and never had another issue. When i got 7 with a new desktop i loved it. I realized it was Vista, but a more streamlined version and thought "if this is what i got years ago this would've been great!"
You could improve stuff a lot by disabling all the Aero nonsense, all those see through menus and cool animations and stuff.
Don't forget the combo of CE, ME and NT, called Windows CEMENT.
NT was pretty good, and CE did exactly what it promised.
@@logan_page Very little computing for very little computers? 😋
still better than the spyware rootkit malware PUP trojan called "windows 10" who TF uses it as there OS, all the normies of the world were doomed.
Jeff Govak what do you use, pray tell?
@@NightmareRex6 what do you use??
I'm old. I remember when DR-DOS was a thing.
I remember that, I was a Novell 3.11 CNE.
No fond memories of XTree Gold....?
I threw away the ms dos floppies that came with my pc. Never used it. First pc dos and then Dr dos. X tree gold (gets faraway look like Homer Simpson mmmmmmmm)
And it was a good thing from what I remember.
I must be older. I still remember installing MS-DOS 5.0 on a IBM XT with 8088 and 256KB RAM. Guess what? It worked!
I had Vista Ultimate on a brand new laptop at the time. My experience of Vista seems very different to many, I loved it but then I had a computer capable of running both it and Aero at the time.
A while back, I ran across an old laptop that came with Vista Starter, and 256mb of ram.
I am mostly familiar with networking equipment and only somewhat familiar with the hardware after the end of the cable. Truthfully the primary “troubleshooting” step that I used on the PCs that I encountered was that if it ran anything with a Windows logo the first step was to look on line and order the largest memory modules you could afford. It seems rather stupid to just blindly order memory but 🤷 an awful lot of the time it just worked. If the device had any other logo restarting did the trick.
This is just a list of Windows versions before Service Pack fixes.
Vista was okay after SP2.
Win 8.0 was fixed with 8.1.
Even beloved XP was bad before SP1.
Agree, but XP runned for me best after SP2
Windows 8 wasnt that bad after 8.1 and tweaking.
Vista, to be honest whas great to on my laptop runned it till Windows 10 came out.
True
Hahahahahah...
Windows ME was the worst version of a Microsoft gui, ever. I made more money back in the day downgrading to Windows 98SE then anything else.
@@RDJ134 8.1was a service hack. 8 and 8.1 were both horrible, much worse than Vista.
Thanks for stating that Vista was actually fine after SP2. I fully agree with this and have very similar experiences. I always found that there was too many prejudice and that MS had actually done a good job in correcting many annoyances with Vista. The worst would be Windows ME in my opinion. Windows ME would fail within a week after a clean install.
I had an all in one PC with ME on it. I could see no issue with it. Perhaps only a bluescreen once in afew months for me. Didn't quite know what people disliked at the time.
The problem with saying Vista is the worst, yet fine after SP2, then shouldn't it be tied with XP? That had ridiculous bugs, some of which, like the fact that anyone from anywhere could literally send you a system message, usually spam, with no way of blocking them, without being patched to hell and back first.
Tolerating and justifying MS products and behavior (and the opposite) is a declaration of principle
It would be debatable to accept MS if their products were superb
Supporting MS crap leads to later supporting nazis, zionists and all kinds of fascists
I used Vista on 2009 laptop, and for a long time I did not switch to Win7 or Win8, as it simply worked like a charm. When I switched to Win7, I noticed that this system is just a revamp of Vista SP2 and it did not work as great as people said.
It's insane to me because Microsoft proved a universal truth with their Mojave campaign - all they had to do was take Vista, rebrand it Windows 7, and braindead people would eat it up. Vista SP2 and Win7 RTM are the exact. same. fucking. operating system. XP RTM and SP1 were unmitigated nightmares and it will never cease to blow my mind the mental gymnastics people do to claim Vista is the "worst" of anything.
I remember seeing that Copland demo lumber along on a friend's computer. The multiple UI skins demonstrated there were its most visually impressive feature, and of course that never saw the light of day, but they did take the default look shown in that video and use it for the UI of Mac OS 8 and 9, the last classic Mac OS versions. So the actual Mac OS 8 looked quite a lot like Copland even though it definitely wasn't Copland (no preemptive multitasking--that didn't land in the Mac world until Mac OS X, and huge chunks of the operating system in Mac OS 8 were still running under 68k emulation on PowerPCs).
There was another great feature added in Windows Me. In windows 98 etc, virtually everything USB needed a driver. Even memory sticks. So, when Me came along, I was pleasantly surprised it handled all my memory sticks straight out of the box. Likewise my joypad and stuff. But yes, saying it crashed a lot, doesn't really get across how unreliable it could be. I eventually discovered the chipset manufacturers drivers for graphics cards, were more stable than those provided on CD by the card manufacturer. So I think, the instability might have been shipping what were essentially 98 drivers, as Me drivers... Either way though, aside from the shocking stability, I absolutely loved Me. Once I found a stable setup, I built exact replicas for gaming 'lan parties' etc.
thanks for another great trip down memory lane here, respect!
The problem with Me is that Windows 2000 came out around the same time, looked very similar, offered that same feature and also was a whole lot more stable. Once games started supporting Win2k there was little reason to use Me.
I've heard Windows ME referred to a "Migraine Edition".
Multiple Errors I call it
In Germany, the "ME" wasn't only spelled out letter by letter since "me" isn't a word in German, it was also backronymed to either "MüllEimer" (Garbage can) or "Müll Edition" (Garbage Edition). ;-)
we called it the missery edition.
One new dell pc ran ME with autocad.
The OC plotter could only work with ME or not available anymore win2000 license.
ME made your day misserable.
One day i was so fed up with it i took the pc stealthy to my home and installed 2000.
Problem solved 😁
And now Bill Gates wants to F'k the world with his shitty vaccines.
Does any one trust this guy?
And for a little more I could have got a computer with Windows 2000. Oy...
Vista SP2 was my favorite. Stable, the windows 3d look was the best for my taste and it did perform well. When I went to Win 7, I realized it was a slightly streamlined Vista and history has proved me right, it was Vista underneath the covers.
Same
I loved Vista in general, it was eye candy to me.
About that same time, Compiz/Beryl came along and completely blew away any notion of what I had previously thought of as 'pretty'.
Vista64 GOOD, Vista32 BAD. They should have been brave and only ever released the 64 bit version.
@@SwervingLemon hahah exactly. I went full force on compiz and completely stopped using Windows back in university up to this day. Linux was also more convenient for my uni assignments, so it was a pretty easy transition completely away from Windows (I'd already been dual-booting linux for a few years).
Strange that you didn't mention the "dll hell" problem that caused so much trouble in Vista. In the first version of Vista, many programs required new versions of the dlls that they used, and in those early years, there was no versioning mechanism for dll files. If a newer version came out, it just overwrote the old version. But that then caused other programs that used the same dll, to crash because they called incompatible new versions of the methods that they needed. Versioning was added to later versions of Vista, solving lots of issues like this. But by then, it was too late, and Vista had gotten to be known as "unstable".
IBM 1130 DOS series was a real pain, I can think of some others. Some of the O/Ses from before 1980's were extremely frustrating.
As a software developer, I remember Vista very well. Lots of apps failed for one reason: developers though they knew better than Microsoft and did their own thing. When Microsoft locked things down, their apps break. Mine didn’t because I actually followed Microsoft’s instructions!
lol. Yeah, it's kind of how lots of HTML has become "obsolete" and "no longer supported" but pretty much every browser reads those tags just fine. I imagine if a browser actually removed those from support, half the Web would break on the browser.
It sounds like you didn't do any quick-and-dirty hacks. Thank you for writing good code.
Percisely
It was the same with drivers. Back then there were a lot of crappy hardware manufacturers that provided very bad driver support especially from companies fromplaces like Taiwan. As great at hardware Taiwanese companies are they are terrible at software and especially documentation.
Clap clap for the good little developer who does as he's told.
@@MS-ho9wq You mean the developer that did the one thing that made their software work? Yes, how dare they! /s
The problem with me was most people were running it on old computers that were designed for windows 95.
Vista is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be, it added a lot features that are considered normal today.
The problem with ME was definitely stability, and the computer restore feature which ate your generally not to big HDD up, and never worked one single time when the system files ended up corrupted. I had a brand new 1.0ghz P3 machine with 256mb of RAM and a 40gb HDD, computer restore would often take up 5gb of it after any long period of time, the performance was fine on that machine, the stability was not. We bought a second HDD to keep my parents work stuff on and every single member of the family including my at the time 6 year old brother knew how to run the system restore CDs to reinstall windows ME and all the drivers. My family LOVED ME when I stole a windows 2000 CD key and install disk from my highschool from machines they imaged XP on. Still couldn't play real mode DOS games, but the computer worked. Windows 2000 was great, OEM keys would install on any machine.
Running a Windows ME virtual machine in retrospect isn't as terrible because, well, eventually all the problems got patched but it was long after everyone forgot ME existed. I played the hell out of Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, and Mechwarrior 4 on that machine, as well as Empire Earth.
I loved UAC. When I got used to it being there, I could no longer go back to XP.
Removed a good many too, and Vista was every bit as bad as people made it out to be. The 64 bit didn't have issues aside from getting drivers, the 32 bit would blue screen and ruin the file table if run on a 32 bit chip. The upgrade theory doesn't hold as people were having these problems on new machines with OEM installs.
I remember the same issue with O/S 2 back in the early 90s. I was working for an automation vendor and we had software from Europe than ran on O/S 2. The problem is that OS/S 2 required at least 2 Mb RAM and more to run well (a lot in the early 90s) and people wouldn't buy it. Windows 3.0/3.1 required a lot less RAM. O/S 2 was so superior to Windows it wasn't funny but people wouldn't buy it because of the memory requirements. It sounds like a joke in 2020, but memory was really expensive in the early 1990's.
@@shaunpcoleman At least it leveled off a bit since Vista, otherwise we'd be in the 1/2- 1 TB zone. I had 2 mb in 93 and it was half the cost of the PC
One thing no one seems to mention about Windows ME is it was one of the first Windows OSs that you could change an IP address for a network device without needing to reboot (looking at you windows 95 and 98). That was a useful feature at any CS 1.5 comp
So you were a hacker and used it for ban evasion?
I switched to Windows ME because it added support for how I wanted to do multi-monitor, never had an issue. I also had Vista Ultimate, again no issues. I understand many people did have issues with them, but they worked just fine for me and did what I wanted. These both ran on DIY systems and I have been a computer geek since the early 80's so maybe they just weren't well suited for people who weren't?
Full disclosure, I worked on Vista drivers at Intel when it was coming out. I didn't care for it, but I am a Linux person and also worked on HPUX, AIX, MacOS and Linux at the same time. I remember Microsoft was telling Intel that Vista was going to be the last version of Windows and they were going to get out of the OS game to focus on gaming, home entertainment and office productivity, so there was a bit of a party atmosphere whenever a team shipped their Vista final binaries, fully expecting they'd never have to deal with Windows ever again.
I can only imagine the disappointment when 7 was announced. Which is just Vista with a less aggressively different UI. Hell, use a CD burner in 10 and it's recognizably to me as the EXACT SAME THING that was introduced in Vista, right down to Vista-specific Aero UI elements...
@@kukuc96 I do hope Windows finally fades out. It really is a weird and obsolete design.
@@BalooUriza Wow! Great story!
@@BalooUriza Like Gnome 3 :D
That actually explains a lot.... like why there's 8 different versions when only 3 of them are actually useable
@@jasonmetcalfe4695 Not really. ME is just 98 without some legacy support, and 9x is just 3.x with a better program manager. Vista and 7 are literally the same except for branding. Microsoft's just really good at selling its OS customers the same turd twice and them liking it the second time, even if nothing substantive has changed about it but the marketing materials.
here in Greece we call Windows Vista, the Windows Svista... "svista" in Greek means "erase it". we love them hahahaaha...
yes it sucked, still better than the trojan rootkit spuware PUP Malware known as "windows 10" were in big trouble world is more and more useing litteral malicius code as an OS, just because they bic corp dosent make it "safe" infact, big corp measn MORE DANGERUS!!!
The funny thing is that "svista" in Italian means "error by distraction"
EDIT: Hello fellow Greek neighbor!
Εχω δει να τα χρησιμποποιουν μερικοι στο δημοσιο, αλλα λιγοι. Εκει δεν εχουν τα Svista εχουν ακομα τα XP
@@NightmareRex6 When I finally did an install as they made sure some stuff no longer works on Windows 7, I laughed when it asked if I agreed for them to collect 'inking'. Or to put it another way, agree to key logging. Some accused me of being a tin foil hat wearer, so I showed them the link on the Micro$oft site how to switch it off and check it hasn't been switched on again by an update.
I use Linux for everything else now and just have Windows 10 for gaming and the stuff that won't run on 7 or Linux.
Και νομιζα οτι μονο εγω το λεω ετσι...
One thing A LOT of people don't know about, is why Windows 7 seemed to work with everything at the time. It's because during the end stages of development, Microsoft allowed for people of the "insiders program" to send messages in, and report hardware that just didn't work with either vista or the beta of win7 and Mircosoft would then review the number of hardware support requests, and build in or find drivers that would work with the hardware, or software the user submitted. Also, this was the "REAL" first and "Working" deployment of the windows internet driver support updates, so even after launch, older hardware could still be added to the os and with an internet connection, win 7 would go out and find drivers that just "WORKED" for most of the hardware out there, even dating back to about 10years prior, which is just unheard of. Luckily windows 8, 10, and 11 still use most of the same source, so driver compatibility remains, and even for those who chose to go back and run vista, you can now use 7 or 8 drivers (most of the time) to get hardware working on vista. Just an FYI.
It's a pity my printer didn't have a driver in 7 & later. I found one, but it would have cost me $80. Thanks MS.
I remember using Lindows in 2003 as my second Linux distro after trying red hat.
Lindows was also available for free, or you could buy it retail…for some reason. Not sure what they were trying there
Because slow download speeds made it more convenient to get the software at the store.
I used to know the guy who was the Microsoft manager who had the responsibility of releasing Vista home version. We called him Tam, not sure if that was his real name or a nickname. The last time I saw him a few months after Vista had been released, I was setting up my webcasting equipment for a meeting of an association we both were involved with (nothing to do with Microsoft). When he walked in he looked at me and said "I don't want to talk about Vista". He knew it wasn't ready but had been forced to release it due to it being so far behind schedule. Sadly, Tam passed away some years ago of complications from diabetes.
I was fortunate enough to be using Windows 2000 when "me" came out. Didn't even try it lol.
lot of older programs and games did not work op 2k (like carmageddon 2)
Amen!
For some time here 2000 wasn't listed as many of the "experts" didn't believe it was a desktop OS.
I've been using 2000 for so long that I barely used XP, which I saw as "NT for dummies".
I made the switch just to have a 64 bit OS (yes, there was an x64 version of XP)
My memory in Win2k is as sweet as the memory of my childhood, I miss them, I even still remember how hard disk sound when at 2k's loading screen.
I was a beta tester on Vista. At what became the last beta, there were two views in the test group. There were Microsoft fans who were really keen on the new UI and were full of talk about "empowerment" and "refreshing". Then there were people who were testing hardware and software products with it who were almost universally saying "this is not ready to ship, there are too many problems!"
Microsoft listened to the first group. The rest of the world listened to the second. Fixing problems at SP2 was just too late; the turkey was already stuffed. The product I work on is a set of libraries for use in applications. We supported XP up to the end of its support from Microsoft. We dropped support for Vista at the same time, several years before Microsoft dropped it, and not a single customer objected.
Shocked that not a single version of ChromeOS is on here because every version is horrible
I always liked the joke that Windows 7 is Windows Vista upgraded to Windows XP.
It wasn't as good as XP, but it was mostly tolerable. And 10 isn't half as good as 7, but it's tolerable.
I think technically it is/was
Microsoft's joke on us: Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 were all Windows 6.x under the covers. 10 would have been another 6.x, but Microsoft wanted to cut ties with Windows 8 so much that the product name and system version were both upped to 10.
WINDOWS 10 is windows 8 upgraded to windows 7 (but not as good as 7)
Funny and true.
I would swap Windows ME, and Windows Vista. ME was promoted as the next iteration of 9x, but fell very far short just delivering the basics. Vista on the other hand delivered everything it should have, but was more demanding than Windows XP, and needed new drivers, which some vendors didn't deliver. Its problem was the way it was launched, more than Vista itself.
Windows ME worked just fine if you weren't reliant on DOS programs. Not a good OS but hardly the worst.
@@thelaughingmanofficial For some this may have been the case, but I have heard many stories of people installing ME or buying a PC with ME already installed and the computer crashed a heck of lot more than 95 or 98 ever did. I've heard that this may have been a driver issue, possibly due to many PC manufacturers not properly updating their drivers for ME or putting out buggy ME drivers. The removal of Real Mode DOS in ME did alleviate a common cause of crashes in 95 and 98 but drivers and/or other issue made ME crash allot for others reason, at least for many. Apparently, ME was rushed out as stop-gap Windows update for the year 2000 because they had originally planned to release a consumer version of Windows 2000 codenamed Windows Neptune but canceled those plans in favor developing Windows XP, codenamed Whistler. Whistler was a combo of Neptune and Odyssey (the planned successor to Win2000 workstation). With Whistler/XP they decided to introduce a radical Luna theme over the old Windows 2000 that wasn't much different the NT 4 theme. Had Neptune been completed and released instead of ME, I think even with the somewhat boring interface, that would have been the better move then update the interface with XP a year later as planned.
@@thelaughingmanofficial It worked fine if you weren't reliant on ANY program, to be fair. Nothing justifies 98SE running smoothly without a hitch (for 9X standards) while ME crashes when you sneeze. Even 3.1 variants of Windows didn't give me that much trouble.
So yes, ME is definitely the worst of 'em. Far, FAR worse than Vista, that's for sure.
My sister in law bought a brand new laptop with Vista installed. It was useless the moment she turned it on, because it only had 1GB of RAM.
I remember Dos 4.0, it clogged up the memory so it worked not as well as the 3.2 or 3.3 Version and it had almost no real useable innovations. The next version 5.0 brought quite significant improvements.
The real killer in MS-DOS 4.0 though was "Smartdrive" - for about 3 MONTHS before MS-DOS 4.0 was released, the best selling drive BY VOLUME was the Miniscribe 3650 and it's RLL certified version the 3675R - which had more than 1024 tracks. Smartdrive was limited to 1024 tracks, or it would OVERWRITE DATA - so you either had to format the drive smaller and LOSE CAPACITY, or you had to ditch SmartDrive entirely, or you had your most critical parts of the drive get overwritten and LOSE DATA.
There were other drives with the same issue that were less common but had been around LONGER, like the Microscience 3085 and it's ESDI version the 3170, and had EVEN MORE tracks.
There was a VERY STRONG reason MS-DOS 5.0 had a WIDE, OPEN BETA TEST before it was released - and I think that's STILL the only Microsoft OS that ever had a REAL Beta Test program.
I'm going to say it. Windows Vista wasn't a bad OS. At all.
The thing that made people think it was, in my theory, was the hardware requirements that the hardware of the time just weren't up to it, baring in mind people would've been updating their XP machines that may have already been upgraded from 98.
My very first Vista experience was on a 1.06Ghz Core Duo sub laptop that was HORRIBLE. But fast forward to having a Core 2 Extreme and 4GB RAM? Beautiful OS!
Hell, recently I've been working on restoring a bunch of Dell Optiplex 740's that run on Vista Business & they are very fast & responsive & completely usable in 2020 for basic work and some light web (yeah, I know, outdated browsers aside).
Also, not sure why you had issues with VirtualBox drivers. I have a Vista VMWare machine that I've been running to test out Post EoL update installs with no problems.
Vista had fairly high memory requirements at the time. However I had 8 GB in my quad core system in the year 2008 and it ran like a dream.
I've always said that saying Vista was bad because it ran slow on machines that really shouldn't have came with it is like saying XP is bad because ran like shit on a Pentium MMX.
Windows Me was far worse than Vista.
I'd say it's a pretty big problem if a mass-market operating system doesn't, uh, operate very well for most users (including even some who bought computers with Vista OEM).
@@kvngn that wasn't the fault of Vista. It was the fault of OEMs slapping Vista Home Premium on machines that shouldn't have ran anything past Vista Home Basic.
I knew the Microsoft manager who was responsible for releasing the home version of Vista. My connection had nothing to do with PCs but was for a volunteer group where both of us held board positions. The last time I saw him, he has since passed away from complications with diabetes. I was setting up my equipment to webcast a board meeting. He was the first person to enter the room after me. He looked at me and said "I don't want to talk about Vista". He knew Vista wasn't ready but had been forced into releasing it because it was so far behind schedule. Rest peacefully Tam.
I got a new computer that came with ME. At the time, I had a home network with about 8 computers. ME was running so slow I could only get about one keystroke every 10 or 15 seconds. It took me almost a full day to track down the problem. The new computer had full network indexing turned on by default and was trying to index everything on my network. Once I disconnected the network I was able to disable the the indexing feature and things started running a lot smother.
I'm showing my age, but the TSO so-called operating system on old IBM mainframes was truly horrendous. It was basically a batch job environment that you (barely) interacted with on a terminal by typing a few commands, and mostly writing and submitting JCL (Job Control Language) scripts any time you wanted to accomplish anything. It was full of horrors like having to pre-allocate space for any/every file you'd be writing, with specifications like "50/5", which meant that the file started out with space for 50KB, and as needed would auto-extend by +5KB, but only to a maximum of 16 additional expansions, at which point it absolutely would not be allowed to grow any larger. To "lengthen" the file you had to write a JCL script to explicitly reallocate a larger file space (choose wisely!) and move the contents from the old file to the new file. Fun times.
TSO was still running on many corporate systems (well into the 80's) long after better operating systems had been in use for years. IBM's CMS and VM mainframe operating systems were a joy in comparison.
I always loved the fact that Steve Jobs was kicked out of his own company, started NextOS, made a next generation OS there, had Apple buy his company and OS and then actually took over Apple as CEO again. Who got the last laugh?
Ahem....I think that he is dead......
@@steinrich56 What??!!! When the heck did THAT happen?! But seriously, it was fun to watch those series of events take place and then have Steve build the company up to the trillion dollar enterprise it is now.
That is certainly a karma :)
Linus got the last laugh... 😅
Bill Gates
22:32 Love the reference to The IT Crowd!
Well, I didn't expect GNU Hurd, because the thing was never really finished.
My boss was a Lindows evangelist at the time and our company had to work with it for a year before he gave up and we went back to Windows.
A small additional note: My department was supposed to transfer a special financial accounting system of our company from OS/2 to Copland.
For six months we were more concerned with restoring our Macs from backups or installing the latest Copland update than with the realisation of our project (which we then transferred to Windows NT because our company lost confidence in Apple).
Windows ME is the reason I became a computer tech or part of an IT team. My first windows computer was windows ME and I spent most of the time fixing it or keeping it running that I started learning how to repair computers and eventually started repairing them for a living and still do that today.
I skipped Me all together and instead migrated to windows 2000, man that was a breath of fresh air, as it was the first full 32-bit plug and play OS.
POSIX systems: "This action requires elevated privileges, prove you are root, type your password"
Win32 systems: "This action requires you to be admin, are you admin? [Yes/No]"
"This incident will be reported"
Actually, it's worse. Sometimes it doesn't allow a damn thing to function even if you're an Admin. For instance, if some moron decided for some service to have a DCOM-based interface. You just enable everything, turn off every firewall thus completely ruining security of the system, but still it's permission denied issue.
But it is mostly protecting you from programs that are doing something you didn't expect, or didn't even realize that you were running / were being run for you...it isn't perfect but had its raison d'etra.
I blame OEMs for the failure of Vista. Drivers and hardware specifications were the main reason.
Those were the dark days. What a crap operating system
@@soulintake The operating system itself wasn’t crap. It’s the fault of the OEMs for not living up to modern standards.
@@melonademan5639 Totally agree! I loved it! I selected compatible hardware at the time with Vista Ultimate. Never ran into any problems at all. Was quite content with it!
Vista wasn't optimised very well so it ran badly on low end hardware. Basically the same problem as ME
In 2007, Vista simply wasn't up to scratch.
I'm not sure if you used it in 2007, and on what hardware, but the whole planet couldn't suddenly dump everything, throw away every peripheral, and buy a dual core system with 3GB RAM and 256MB+ of video RAM.
There were systems with 32 and 64MB of video RAM, that were single core with lower bus speeds such as Pentium 4 2.8GHz machines that had no chance in hell, and that's without looking at their device drivers and peripherals.
The world doesn't stop just because Microsoft finally manages to get their bloated trash out of the door at v0.7 beta 2 [wink]
The worst OS is always the one you wrote for yourself. It's never finished and the list of things you are missing is growing faster than the code base.
Even the stuff you get done just fits your needs and needs to be refactored once it faces a broader audience. Once you've reached a somewhat stable state, you happen to realize that a) you are on the wrong architecture anyway b) crucial parts that took most of the time could be easily replaced by better components (or generally left out because EFI or a good bootloader do it for you anyway) and c) could be done a lot more efficiently if you dropped support for exactly the generation you did it for in the first place.
In the end, there's some profound disgust for CPU errata, compiler limitations, most HW manufacturers and nonsensical architectural quirks waiting for you, while having learned stuff you won't really need anywhere else. It's not like you'll step up non-boot CPU cores to 64bit or parsing smbios tables every day. At least, you can re-use parts of it to set nvram variables on your libereboot machine as a cmos setup drop-in or to diagnose weird hardware problems (usually of parts worth less than a few hours of your work).
Gaining respect for everyone who didn't throw away their code and some more gray hair, that's about it.
As somebody who preferred *nix to DOS, I still used Windows until Vista. Vista coincided with the move to FreeBSD based OSX and I finally went to Apple 😳
In defence of Vista, I think a lot of its problem was due to marketing - on a PC with similar specs I always found win 7 and vista to run basically identically, I had a core 2 quad at the time and it ran flawlessly, I came to find that a lot of vista’s issues in my experience were due to it being ahead of its time in many ways, but it struggled massively on the hardware at the time.
By the time WIndows 7 was mature, Vista had been patched sufficiently to be stable. But the first year or two of using it was horrible.
In those days offices were filled with 512 meg of ram machines and a powerful PC would have 1 to 2 gigs. XP survived for so long that oems cheaper out with less ram to a race to the bottom with price wars.
@xwinglover I had mine for 2 weeks before it started acting up.
But that's the problem. No problem with a game pushing the limits of hardware, the world's most popular OS shouldn't be.
In Benchmarks, Vista simply could not keep up to Windows 7 because of the way it wasted ram to display the desktop while Windows 7 used much faster vram.
It's funny to hear about ME. I remember building a new PC back when ME came out and I installed ME on it. It wasn't until later that I found out everyone hated ME. But my experience with it was great; I don't remember it ever crashing and every new piece of hardware I installed seemed to install without any problems. I remember being mystified about why everyone else hated it. Maybe I just got lucky; I dunno.
Most likely you simply used the proper drivers and hardware. Like with Vista Me didn't like drivers and Hardware from the previous Windows. Which is understandable. Used both Vista and Me and both are actually quite good. Vista has the maybe most appealing UI of all. It's just hip to hate both of them lol
like the nokia 3310 memes 99% of the haters never touched ME or worked with it.
My favorite Vista comment ever: Steve Jobs "Windows Vista was the best ad campaign for Mac ever, and we didn't spend a dime."
As a kid who grew up using Apple products (my parents were teachers), I'm a little surprised not to see OS X in there somewhere. It took everything I liked about the way Macs operated (as opposed to PCs) and then made it more like the PC. The file structure got instantly more confusing, and all kinds of processes took over that hid what you were doing.
I remember OS 10.0 Cheetah being a sleek wallpaper for 9.2 Classic and not much else at first; you needed to drop back into 9 to get anything done, at least until the software started catching up.
10. Lindows 2:18
9. Windows 8 4:38
8. Gnu Hurd 6:32
7. IMB DOS 4.0 8:26
6. Windows 1.0 9:42
-Giveaway Ad- 11:30
5. Mac OS 8 Copland 13:00
4. JavaOS 15:13
3. Microsoft BoB 17:01
2. Windows ME 18:18
1. Windows Vista 20:45
Well that answers my question as to whether TempleOS made an appearance
Replace Windows 8 with Windows 10
Glad to see IBM OS2 Warp not on the list. I always sort of enjoyed that one.
@@HansensUniverseT-A No noninono lol
As a software engineer I find any software “upgrade” that make your computer slower Oxymoronic!
It’s one thing if you are doing more work and require more hardware, but Windows it’s self should not slowdown your computer!
nothing that more and faster ram and a bigger ssd can't solve! ;)
Sometimes security fixes cause software to run more slowly.
You must not have been a software engineer for long then. Software has gotten slower faster than hardware has gotten faster. This is especially true in the last 6 years, where the new trend is to move everything to the web and bring Javascript to the desktop. Combine that with the SOP of Javascript developers being to use a library for EVERYTHING because they can't even write a left-pad function, and yeah... The only place software seems to NOT be getting slower is in the free/open-source space.
Lol you ain't a software engineer if you haven't encountered the scope creep and bloat and comes with an old legacy system 🤣 (I'm joking of course)
@@angolin9352
The problem is the operating system isn't supposed to be the application you're running. It's merely supposed to be an environment that facilitates the ability to run applications within it.
An operating system that uses more resources in the applications you're running isn't doing its job. It should be getting out of the way as much as possible while maintaining a reasonable form of memory management, task swapping and process isolation.
Wirth's law should never apply to operating systems. Wirth's law is the merely the result of lazy programming not a fundamental principle. It is radically true in the web programming arena, because web programming seems to be focused on extremely short turn around times instead of good design practices.
*"infringing Microsoft’s copyrights “*
You fail to mention the really interesting fallout from this case: the court ruling that Microsoft did not, in fact, own a trademark on the name Windows.
That’s what led to the out of court settlement and probably made Microsoft regret filing the lawsuit.
My personal worst experiences were with Windows 3.11 and MS DOS 5
Both were incredibly unstable and typically crashed at least once a day, forcing you to make manual backups all the time to prevent your work from being lost.
None of the later MS operating systems had such a huge problem.
Windows NT 3.1 was a lot worse. It was abandoned by microsoft because it was so full of bugs. NT 3.5 had a revamped code base.
I used both and don't recall having any stability issues with either. With DOS most crashes are caused by bugs in the applications, and most Windows 3.1 (and later too) crashes are caused by driver bugs.
Honestly, my experience with Windows Me wasn't bad. I happened to buy a PC with Windows Me pre-installed back in late 2000, I think, and used it for several years without any major issue. Never had to reinstall the OS, most things ran just fine; there were some crashes, certainly, but not very frequently, as far as I remember.
Same here. My Windows ME PC never gave me any issues.
I couldn't get it to run for more than 10 minutes without crashing.
@@ivandubinsky1857 You must have been an early adopter. By the time XP was right around the corner is when I had purchased a PC with ME. It did have a later revision that you probably didn't have. It kinda sucks it took them that long to fix the issues it had before because everyone I talk to in person has had a bad experience with ME except myself. Mine ran just as good as XP.
@@ThexthSurvivor I had a good experience with ME too, it was MUCH faster than Windows XP on my Pentium III machine at the time and it was somewhat faster than Win98se, it was also my favourite Windows user interface ever. The difference between NT and 9x in terms of speed is often forgotten but there really was a big performance hit going to NT. ME ran very well on older hardware, it was happy with 64MB of memory whereas XP really needed 256 to present a decent experience upon release. As XP became patched and evolved into SP3 you really had to have 512MB to run XP.
I like how the kid is running from the Windows ME computer.
It's an old ad. He was actually destroying it and then the mom went to the PC and used System Restore to showcase the ability of Windows Me to repair itself.
@@EricchiYukia Horrible OS at the time.
Unnecessary, and died before it could redeem itself.
Mistake edition
@@Phil-D83 No that's windows 7
@@Jimmycozad1980 reee
Perhaps the reason Win 2000 doesn't show up on those tick-tock lists is:
"...Windows 2000 shipped in four different editions: _Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server._ Windows 2000 Professional was _aimed squarely at enterprise desktop customers_ and was the version used the most. All of them included advanced new features that made Windows 2000 an attractive upgrade for both Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98..."
2k released February 2000, Me released September 2000.
Every reason I’m so happy to have switched 100% to a MAC environment at work since 2011. No blue screens, no drivers to install, no IT support, we’ve saved £1000’s on using MacBooks instead of PC’s in our workplace, probably around £80,000 over the 13 years. Got MacBook Airs from 2012 still running fine that have never crashed once.
The first laptop I bought had windows vista installed and it was stable from my end. At that time I was wondering why there are a lot of complaints. I guess using machines meant for xp was the main issue.
I agree, i had windows Vista running on a Core2Duo system and it was quite fast and stable.
@@hyperturbotechnomike runnnin' win 7 on 2 core and it still is fairly ''good''
I had the same good experience, stable without crashes. And when I changed the HDD for a SSD, the system improved a looooot
Powerful PC also struggle with vista not because of low performance but due to terrible hardware handling. This problem didn't exist in W7 so many of us just waited on xp until W7 came out.
fun story, dad's old core 2 duo laptop from 2008 HATES 10 (and by proxy also 11 i imagine) due to a borked intel wifi driver. vista that it shipped with? NOT A SINGLE BSOD, EVER. like idk.
To me, Windows 8 was the nail in the coffin that made me switch to Mac. Vista - I had a high-end gaming PC at that time, and liked many of the changes. I didn't hate that. I completely skipped Me before that.
I understand the hate for Vista, but I never experienced it myself. The only Vista machine I ever used was a new laptop that came installed with Vista, so it wasn't an upgrade on an older machine. Apparently, the hardware was sufficient for Vista, and I used it for many years with no issues. Since I was coming off an older Win95 machine, the new features were impressive to me. The only knock on it I had at the time was compatibility with older software packages. I had a few custom apps that were expensive enough that I couldn't afford to re-buy them for Vista, and Vista wouldn't run them. But if I remember correctly, there was a way you could set individual software apps to run as an older Windows version...not sure how that worked but it seemed to. But that was more my problem than MS, since backward compatibility is always an issue.
The problem with Vista is mostly that the computers most people already had when it came out were just not powerful enough to run it well. If you bought a new computer that came with Vista it usually worked quite well.
I had a Windows ME computer around 2001 but after I used Windows update, it broke explorer's navigation pane. I didn't know how to fix it as I was a kid, and I just got used to file management without it.
I'll argue that the overwhelming fault with Windows Vista, was found in two areas: system resource management, and the marketing. Promises which never became fulfilled with Vista's potential, were made. Generally speaking, the market ready hardware at time of release just wasn't ready, either. It wasn't a "bad" operating system, as every iteration of Windows is resource hungry and bloated beyond anyone's needs, but it was released incorrectly, and at the wrong time.
Ye tbh I've used Vista a couple of times and it seems ok I guess it's just that the hardware back then wasn't powerful enough for a modern gui in the operating system
My experience with Vista was the UAC being the most annoying aspect in that it felt every action prompted the UAC to ask "are you sure you really want to do that?", ended up turning off UAC on quite a few pc's because it really did get to people.
That pesky UAC issue could easily be turned off :-)
@Josh B'Gosh said "It wasn't a "bad" operating system, as every iteration of Windows is resource hungry and bloated beyond anyone's needs
Your response is the best example of what I say: microsofties believe crap is normal so it's ridiculous to demand MS products to function as a car
I bet you would sue if your car behaved like MS crap
Vista definitely had faults, but unlike most of the OSes here, it somewhat redeemed itself after a few years once SP1 and SP2 for Vista came out. 7 was out for a while and I remember going back and installing Vista on a computer when SP2 was out and it was still supported and it ran well on that computer. It wasn't a powerful computer but certainly better than the early minimum system requirements and it was honestly a pleasant experience. Felt like I was using a blend of XP and Windows 7 and while I wouldn't consider the system as stable as Windows 7, I don't remember running into many issues with it. So yeah by the time the Service Packs came out for Vista, the reputation was already irredeemable and 7 had a better launch so people stuck with XP or 7.
Tbh I loved vista when it came out, I even still have an original beta dvd of it. Never understood all the hate
Judging by the comments most people who used it loved it.
It was by far an improvement in aesthetics and it introduced that cool side widget.
I loved Vista. I ran it for years on an (admittedly powerful) laptop. I actually skipped Windows 7 altogether and finally upgraded to Windows 10.
Same here.
Then again, I had *Windows Vista* on a powerful gaming PC that could easily render all the *Aero* effects.
MS gradually introduces a lot of big brother tech inside of their line of operating systems. There was a truckload of newer features of this kind in Vista, and public reception was further aggravated by Mr. Ballmer eccentricity and arrogance. Win7 still had all these controversial features and much more, but the general public got used to them, I guess.
I was lucky and had a very powerful computer I used for music production and it ran Vista with few problems. The good news is nobody mentioned Tandy. I loved my Tandy. I started to learn how to go from tape to digital on that machine. Even today though retired I still use a dual CPU/dual GPU 128gb ram machine for hobby video and audio work.
Pascal. Not just the language, but the Pascal OS, running on the p-machine. In theory, any compliant Pascal compiler out putting p-code could be used to make runnable programs. The amazing thing is that it worked! Haven't used it in years, but I still have one.
I loved Windows 2000 back in the day - clean interface, stable, and actually ran quite a few games (unlike NT 4, which also required doing a double backward somersault through a hoop while whistling the Star Spangled Banner just to get it installed). I kept 98 as a dual boot for running older stuff, and while I did dabble with ME for a while, I got fed up with it and went back to 98SE.
Same goes for Vista - I have a "Vista Capable" laptop that did run it okay, but I got frustrated with that too and went back to XP. At least I was able to get it through the university instead of having to pay full price.
I also used 8 and 8.1 for a while, and I was at least able to "tolerate" them - instead of hunting for apps in the Metro interface, it was just quicker to use the search function instead.
Did you buy it in the first few months? Zero driver support out of the box. What a failure
10/10 assessments there. Windows 8 was only tolerable if you were comfortable using the keyboard more than clicking icons with the mouse.
2000 was really the dry run for XP. And it was really great. XP was really just 2000 with higher hardware requirements and a pasteurized wallpaper. Though as computers got faster and faster, XP began to overtake 2000 in what it could get out of the hardware. For me that seemed somewhere around the Athlon XP 1600ish area.
@@soulintake You scream "incel". Are you ok?
@@wishusknight3009 I'm fine, you seem a bit emotional over this, its going to be okay man! Have a great day!
Back on the days when vista was released, I was on college doing my thesis, my computer got stuck on an update and I lost 2 weeks of work
Why would you go 2 weeks without backing up your thesis?!
I had to do software development on Vista. It was amazingly painful, but I recall the absolute worst thing about it being its version of Outlook. You basically needed a dedicated computer just to run it.
And, yes, Windows 7 was essentially service pack 3 of Vista. They didn't add a lot. Vista's feature set was fine; it looked nice; it just needed massive performance and bugfix patches. That period was the only time I ever used Windows as a development platform, though.
In may 2008 I built my own PC with quality components to run 64 bit Vista. No driver problems at all, super stable, beautiful UI. The way too many 'are you sure' is only that irritated until fixed with the Service Pack. I ran Vista until MS stopped supporting it, skipping Windows 7, moving directly from Vista to 8. Which started up much, much quicker and it ran very stable too, but I experienced the early UI as a big pain. Over the years, I replaced the boot storage with an SSD, added USB 3 and I replaced the graphics card of this 2008 PC, it has been running Win 10 since that came out. What I find interesting is that for doing office work, surfing the web and watching CZcams videos, all in HD, I hardly notice any difference in terms of speed and lagging compared to my 2022 business laptop anf other computers. It wastes much more energy though.
While I agree that the launch of Vista was a disaster, it's fascinating that so many consider Windows 7 to be one of MS's best OS's, an OS which is essentially Vista Service Pack 3. I think the reasons people view WIn7 so much more favorably than Vista are:
1. Vista did indeed have several issues at launch, which were fixed with SP1/2
2. The system requirements of Vista and Win7 are actually nearly identical, but Vista came out several years earlier. At the launch of Vista, 512-1024 MB of RAM and single-core CPUs were the norm. By the time Win7 came out, 4+ GB of RAM and dual-core CPUs or better were common, making everything feel snappier.
3. When Vista came out, hardware manufacturers just weren't ready. Drivers were either buggy and unstable, or simply non-existent so you had to throw out perfectly good hardware if you wanted to upgrade. When Win7 came out, hardware manufacturers had caught up with the new driver model, and almost everything that worked with Vista would work with Win7.
I had a few machines running Vista. I'm not sure what all the hate was about with this release. The very first release had some issues, but these were quickly fixed. It was actually one of the most polished releases Microsoft ever put out. It's downfall was being sold, initially, on older hardware that really wasn't up to the task.
@B3ro1080 I seem to recall gamers' main complaint with Vista being added latency, and many staying with XP. I don't really pay too much attention to the needs of gamers' because they are not representative of general usage. PC gaming also wasn't quite as "hot" of a scene then as it is today. Sometimes I think a lot of the BS about latency, frame rates, resolution, etc are more of a dick size contest than actually about playability or strategy.
@B3ro1080 Anything over 60FPS is higher than human persistence of vision. Any latency below 200ms isn't perceptible.
@B3ro1080 It wasn't that big in 2007 when Vista came out. Present, but not the esports thing we have today. As for as 200ms goes. It's all in your head. Find a science book. Looks like you responded just to argue anyways.
@B3ro1080 Plenty of online reaction time tests around to prove that out. 200ms is considered average... The all time average on the famous dataset is 280ms. The old gold standard for RTT before ubiquitous fiber links was 90ms or roughly half typical reaction time. No denying that some have exceptional reflexes, but even the best test subjects tested in the 140s. That is visual reaction time. Aural reflex is much faster... Some professional athletes testing as low as 78ms.
I loved Windows ME! It had every software driver needed to get you running!
What I remember too , 98SE without as much reinstall hassle for that reason I remember hating 98 more which blue screened just as much.
Back in the day, it was fine. Nowadays, it is rubbish.
You forgot CCP/M (Concurrent Control Program for Microcomputers.) A successor to CP/M, its documentation was incomprehensible. It was a text interface, intended to allow the concurrent execution of programs, developed by Digital Research in about 1985. It did not support a Windows-like environment. It ran on the IBM PC. It was probably intended as a successor to CP/M but along came DOS, and the rest is history.
On two different occasions, I bought a complete PC with Linspire for $100 from Fry’s Electronics. One was for my daughter and her family. One for me. I installed XP on both PCs. I was already a Linux user, but had no plans on using Linspire other than to play around with it and maybe having a dual boot. I can’t remember the details of how Linspire worked, but the whole idea and the reason for such a low price, was that they had an easy peasy built-in way of buying apps. These included many of which were quite basic and included with Linux distros.
I recall Vista launching and thinking it was a rushed, knee-jerk reaction to the 3D accelerated desktop environments that were the rage on linux at the time. Im shocked to find out that it had a 6 year dev cycle. Wow.
I'm always amused by the amount of hate that Vista still receives these days. I had a Vista based PC that was my daily driver for almost 4 years. Granted it was a Core 2 Quad that had 4 GB of RAM to begin with (later 8 GB) and it came with Vista SP2 but it never gave me any real issues.
However, I do agree with Microsoft making a whole lot of changes with Vista very quickly hurt it. The fact is Microsoft enforced a whole lot new rules with Vista as far as the Windows APIs & drivers are concerned that were mostly suggestions under XP. Some of the new rules that had to be followed caused older programs to trip UAC, sometimes constantly, and caused a lot of device drivers to have to be rewritten. Many of those new API & driver rules were put in place due to how easy it was (and still is) to unleash malware/viruses on XP based machines. By the time Windows 7 was released both the hardware, software and device drivers had all caught up to those changes so the transition seemed very easy, hence the love for Win 7 over Vista. Even though under the hood Vista and 7 are very similar.
I agree. I used Vista for years and I thought it was fine. UAC could be a bit annoying but really, its just one click to say 'Yes I made that change' I never had issues with it being tripped multiple times for a program.
AzlanTLion I just turned UAC off. After that, I found Vista to be great. Actually had better luck with vista than 7 (in terms of stability). My one complaint with Vista is that it never had Aero Snap
My laptop back in 2007 was a Celeron with 2GB of memory and it came/ran with Vista fine. Granted, I was a student who didn't need much out of it except for social media, document manipulation, and occassional light gaming.
Also, I liked UAC when it was introduced to be honest. Back during the XP days I used to have an anti-malware solution that relied on approving/denying system events instead of virus definitions to work as I was fed up by my PC getting screwed over whenever I plug a flash drive in.
The reason you never had any real issues was because it was already SP2 on decent hardware. At launch even hardware higher than recommended specs was struggling with aero on and a few programs open. On top of that depending on which peripherals you used more often then not drivers would be a major headache and take forever to get resolved (many I know just bought different hardware that they knew from forums/friends worked). Partly it was Microsoft's problem of not enough collaboration with manufacturers and their buy-in scheme for Win compatible (pay us to get your hardware working PnP); partly it was manufacturers pushing their products too soon and then dragging their feet and pointing fingers instead of working on proper drivers together with MS.
I had plenty of issues with it (including many blue screens) until SP1 was released. That solved all my issues (well at least my pc issues lol). After SP2 it was pretty much a pre-win7 version.
Vista was a day late and a dollar short. It wasn't a bad OS, it just couldn't cash the checks that the Longhorn hype wrote. Blame Ballmer.
I remember almost a decade at work where it was "thank goodness for NT" on our software driven hardware simulation facility programs while everything else was bobbing up and down like a cork in the ocean. "Aren't you going to upgrade?" "Uh, like hell no!"
My first computer was an Apple II, which was already an old system when my parents got it for next to nothing in the mid 1980s. At the time I didn't know any better, and of course you can't expect too much from a system with such limited ram where each disk had to contain both the operating system and a copy of Basic, with not a hell of a lot of room for other stuff, but Apple dos 3 was pretty terrible. Very weird limitations on disk access, no directories, bad i/o implementation. Still it was the first computer I learned and I poked around with that thing until I knew better than most how it worked.
Expected TempleOS to be in this
Same
That was my immediate expectation
You are looking for the best OS list then 😋
@@youreperfectstudio4789 TempleOS deserves to be at the top of both lists
RIP Terry
It offers ultimate privacy and is an excellent developers research operating system. It's not meant for you perhaps. 😼
I have fond memories of Warp 3.
Trying to get music and digital sound both working on Doom was fun as each seemed to lock out the other. When Windows XP came along and Doom worked flawlessly, that saw all 40 discs reformatted.
I'll never forget rolling back my brand new laptop from Windows 8 back to 7 after trying to deal with it for about a week.
I agree, Win95 was a good OS in its day. It looks pretty pale compared to XP or newer versions of Windows. But it was much more capable than Win 3.11. If you were a business applications user or developer you certainly appreciated not having all the 3.11 limits, the constrained memory models, the poor multitasking, etc.
As for ME, the kernel wasn't bad, but there was so much new and buggy code piled on top of it that the OS as a whole was unstable.
Yeah, Vista that was a mess. There was actually more than one code reset with Longhorn. There was the one big one that got the publicity but there had been a much quieter reset before that. And there was so much churn and so many features were cut after the reset that a lot of us that were trying to build applications against the pre-release versions of Longhorn never knew how much was going to break every time we got a new build.
I never had any issues with Windows 3.11, but Win95 was a real dud. It kept on deleting material it said I didn’t need, which wasn’t always the case. It also had the annoying habit of shutting down in the middle of the most menial but important of tasks.
Nice list, and interesting enough I agree with everything but the top one... I was a sysadmin at a bank when Vista appeared, and for me it was quite the salvation back in the day. With XP getting dated pretty heavily (and bringing its own compatibility issues with SP2) Vista was well accepted in our organisation. Of course, like everyone else, we also moved to Win7 as soon as we had a chance, but much of that transition was only smooth because we already had had the experience with Vista.
I agree. Vista seems to be a victim of both the rise of the Internet in the 2005-2006 era, and its futuristic features that were too ahead of its time. When I upgraded from XP, everything was smooth and it actually ran very well on my Pentium 4 PC with just 1GB RAM, which was already outdated at that time. In fact Vista provided a good compatibility with the apps that I was using for schoolwork and its security was also a big improvement with the introduction of UAC, which seems to have caused a big trouble because most users weren’t familiar with it.
I can’t speak for ME the same way, though, because computers weren’t available in my home at that time being a little kid.
You guys said Vista was number one when Chrome OS exists
@@existenceisillusion6528 Windows 10 is quite good, way better than Vista or 8.
@@existenceisillusion6528 I’m able to do plenty on my Windows 10 tablet. It’s only crap if you’re a die hard fan of putting MS/Windows down all the time.
@@existenceisillusion6528 we’ve all got our opinions. I do video editing, which is quite labour intensive. I’ll agree that Windows 7 was good, Windows 8 was crap but Windows 10 is good again.
@@DanCollinsPhotography windows 10 is nice on a pc but why the hell would you put windows on a tablet?
@@David_Box It was pre-installed. And works great 👍
Here's something you forgot: Microsoft BOB is included on every single disk that Microsoft ever sold. Including 10 and 11. (Dave Plummer, Microsoft Engineer)
I remember installing windows 11 on a new computer (duel booting linux mint) and, while the mint install still works to this day apart from a kernel update breaking the wifi drivers at some point (but I got that fixed pretty quickly), I have had to reinstall windows 11 twice. The first time was a little over a week after it was first installed, where it would blue screen and say "i/o serialization error", and the second time a bunch of critical dlls or something got corrupted in an update.
Lindows, Win 8, Gnu Hurd, IBM DOS 4, Windows 1, Copland, JavaOS, Bob (which isn't an OS), Win ME, Windows Vista.
There.. saved you 30 minutes and two ads.
vista first, before ME? wow this video is uninformed.
Vista just can't get a break from all the hate. It's sad. I loved it
Vista’s always been my favourite version of Windows. It’s like a cross between my 2 other favourite versions (7 and XP) in both UI and function.
Why
@@Clay3613 because it's got the best from XP (tons of good software inbox) and the best of 7 (aka the vista features) can't you read?
Vista was great if your hardware supported it fully. Same with ME. But many people upgraded to it or used underpowered cheap PCs with them and got stuck with bad drivers
I liked Vista because task manager actually closed the process when you clicked "end process". While with XP it usually took like half an hour before anything happened (unless you reset).
If this video were made 3 years in the future the list would have windows 11 in the number 1 slot. What Microsoft is doing with their OS is absolutely ridiculous.