Which version of windows was the best?

Stayin’ Alive 95!

The kind you can see through and open and put pretty curtains on.

The first PC I owned came with Windows 3.0 installed, and I bought the upgrade to 3.1 shortly after it came out in early 1992. (I still have the stack of 3½" floppy disks it came on somewhere in my boxes of ancient computer hard- and software.)

I've had all the subsequent versions of Windows on my machines over the years, and I wouldn't willingly go back to any of them from Windows 10.

I'm not an MS fanboy (although I am whatever the opposite of a fanboy is when it comes to Apple), and I do have some sympathy for those who are riled by what they perceive to be bloat and spyware on Windows 10, but all I care about is that the interface works and is stable. Windows 10 achieves that with the software that I and my family want to run, even though the oldest motherboard and processor in one of our machines came out in 2008, and the three other PCs we use were ex-business machines that were bought on ebay over the last five years for around £100 each.

98 was unstable and crashed a lot.
xp was good after all the updates.
windows 7, ive not used much.
windows 8 is bloated, is badly designed, but stable.
windows 10 ive not used much.

I'd say Win7... I still have it on my laptop. Very stable, rarely crashes and works perfectly fine with modern software/ 2019-2020 videogames.

I also love the streamlined design. Windows 8/10 feels like it's a smartphone OS... Too much bloatware and it's slow to start and I hate 10's menu... My parents have Windows 10 on their laptop (It's a decent spec one) XP was solid, but 7 improved on everything, 7 is the best for me.

No that my preference matters... My next pc/ laptop (have not decided yet) is gonna have to have Win10 on, cause 7 is pretty close to being obsolete.

I liked Windows 3.11. Easy to manipulate drivers and program. Caused very few problems as less was required. Some of you on here probably didn't have the opportunity to use it due to it's age.

98 was cute because nostalgic and aesthetic, but it had only a few good features.
XP was OK, but it was often very slow.
Windows 10 is like 7, but with some stalking coming from very secretive groups.

So, therefore, Windows 7 is the best.

Trick question, 2k was best.

There was a good version of windows? You could have fooled me, and I've used virtually every version of MSdos and Windows there has ever been (except Windows 8).

Most people these day's don't understand that before MSdos (which evolved into Windows) it was 100% totally unacceptable for the base operating system to freeze and require a reboot.

I used several versions of the previous "cpm" operating systems prior to MSdos (and later Windows). TRSdos was the best (Tandy Radio Shack dos). IBM was loosing substantial client base to Tandy (Radio Shack) who could install desktop computers running TRSdos with business office software and not need mainframes. They needed something; and purchased MSdos from Bill Gates (who had a friend who wrote it) - even though it was not stable, and would otherwise have been totally rejected by the computer market - except that IBM was marketing it. MSdos became Windows some years later.

Some years ago I timed a comparison: Old about 1980 Tandy computer (fixed keyboard; 2 5.25" floppy drives) vs 2012 Dell computer with Windows 7.

Tandy computer booted faster, loaded the word processor faster, and because of that I could write a simple letter (with bold and italics at different places) faster than the Dell Computer with Windows 7 and Word.

Of course, the Tandy word Processor did not have 100 different fonts and limited the character size and line spacing options to just several, and could not paste a picture into a word document. I was just able to do a simple letter in half the time (and get on the internet in 1/4 the time too).

Edited to add: My memory is that Tandy computer had 64K ram memory. It came with a word processor, spreadsheet, and database program for contacts or other things. You had to buy separate programs and a modem for the internet as the current internet did not yet exist, although a form of email did exist and you could get and exchange data files from universities and other organizations on the Arpanet.

I liked XP, It seemed pretty stable to me. I never had much problems with it.

Windows 1.0

7. You can play fallout 3 on 7. The best fallout to ever grace the serires

XP rocked. I had it running for six months once without a reboot.

NT 4.0 had the tightest kernel. Only version worth it's salt.

i never had 98 on anythina mine

of the other three 7 was the best features without all the bloatware and stalkerware of 10

and how come it takes like 3 fuckin seconds to click between each pic in the win 10 photo gallery?

I used to play pinball and checkers on XP

Vista for life <3

That's a hard choice. Between the ones I've used the most, I'd say XP and 7. I liked 95 and 98 (though I was a kid the last time I used them), as well as 2000/Me!, and I actually liked Vista and didn't understand why everyone hated it.

I hated Windows 8. The most stupid redesign ever. They were trying to combine a tablet setup with a computer. If I wanted a tablet, I'd get a tablet and not a computer that wants to be a tablet.

Windows 10 is alright.

Windows Vista was so bad, you didnt even make it a poll option 😂

They’re all shit and gates is a kook

I didn’t even know there was different versions