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Vista in my opinion. Lots of stuffs in it that makes it the worst for me ,however 2000 was not good either. I can't remember the name of version they created but took it down quickly, it was a mixed of 2000 and Vista, horrible.

Windows ME? 

Windows 2000 was an enterprise class OS.  Wasn't meant for home use.  Windows ME was the home version, but buggy as hell.

Vista was good in my view. win 2000 and DOS were the worst.  :P

Worst: Microsoft Bob
Windows 2000 was pretty stable, even as desktop OS.
98/ME was crap. Windows for Workgroups dito.
What's always been (and still is) annoying as shit is that MS even blocks Admins from doing everything.
To be honest though, most problems come from users who install random crap without thinking.
Avoid headaches, use a VM for testing.

Where possible I use Linux now, where root is god.

The worst windows versions I used for at least 1 week:

1. Windows 98 (both FE and SE)
This drove me nuts as hell. Had this OS at work and it crashed almost every day. It was easy to mess up, properly booting up an old system required 5 tries on average.

2. Windows XP SP0
I tried XP as a dual boot system besides my Windows 2000 which I really liked. The shiny new Windows XP which hadn't any service pack yet felt more colorful and more enhanced than Windows 2000 but XP SP0 was slow, was overloaded and blue screened at random.

3. Windows Server 2012 (first releases; 2012 looks like Windows 8 )
I never connected in full screen mode because I didn't want the window to occupy my whole screen. The early versions had the start button missing which brought me fiddly times to get the mouse in the left bottom corner just in order to open the start menu. No, I couldn't use the "windows key" on my keyboard because it worked in full screen only. In windowed mode, it just opens the start menu on the host computer.


Best windows versions: Windows 2000, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7.

Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows Vista

Window :
- Linux
- 2000
- Vista

1) Vista
2) 7 with sp0
3) 8 with Metro

Me.

Wait, you mean besides version 8?   :P

Yeah, version 8.  WTF were they thinking?

My personal TOP of worst Windows ever:

1. Windows 8
2. Windows 8.1
3. Windows Vista (any version)
4. Windows Millenium Edition
5. Windows XP

and my TOP of best Windows ever:

1. Windows 98
2. Windows 98 SE
3. Windows 2000 Professional
4. Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
5. Windows 2003 Server

I have Vista running on my game rig and it is freakin awful.  :'(

My friends didn't like Windows ME, never had it though.

It was not that bad. But it had zero pros over Win98 and support for realtime DOS was removed. The system requirements also was little bit higher.

IMO windows vista was wrost version of windows, it was not much popular while previous version windows xp was more popular then vista

You're probably thinking of Windows Me. Windows XP can probably be described as a mix of 2000 and Vista since it was developed in between those two versions but it had a long life and most people don't consider XP to be a bad OS.

Also, I reckon 2000 was quite a good OS so I'm surprised to see that it's been mentioned several times in this thread. It was remarkably stable and ran reasonably well on low spec hardware. I used it for a while on my old laptop but had some problems with connecting to my wifi network so I switched to XP instead which is currently my favorite OS.

Worst for me was probably Windows 7 which came installed on my netbook. But that's probably got more to do with my netbook's low specs and the fact that it was the Starter Edition which didn't even let you change your own desktop background (although there were third party programs which removed this restriction). Never used the normal edition which I've heard is quite good.

I also never liked Windows 8 because of the interface and the fact that it runs so slow on a computer which has better specs than my XP laptop.

98 SE was a great OS for a while but it was very crash-prone and no matter how many times I reinstalled it, it would end up BSODing after a few months. Still, it was my favorite one until XP came along. 95 is a bit too old to make any meaningful comparisons with modern OSs but I remember it being nice back in its time. Everyone hates Vista but personally, I found it to be quite average and not particularly bad although I only used it for light tasks. I only used Me for a few days before switching to 2000 and then XP so I can't really make any judgements based on that but I remember it being very similar to 98 SE.

That (not the same error but an error message during install) happened to me when I was installing Windows XP once. That particular error message is probably either related to memory or VM issues.

Vista crashed as soon as you looked at it before service pack one. After that I only got one or two crashes a week. After service pack two and some very hard work I managed to get it running without crashing at all for a year or two.

By the time windows 7 came out I found vista more stable than it to begin with.

1. Windows 7
2. Windows XP
3. Windows 2003 Server

Vista, no doubt about it!

Interesting choices. 7 and XP are usually considered to be the better OSs by Microsoft (not sure about 2003 Server).

Windows Vista

Easily Vista.

3.1, NT or Vista IMO

they destroyed the gui on windows 8  :'(

Vista is a nightmare

I don't know about anyone else, but I sure hate windows 8 purely because of it's so much options. Sometimes I feel like there are too much of a option and keeps popping up here and there, everywhere I keep my mouse on.

Windows Vista

Windows ME

windows 7.

i hate windows 8 that's why i stick to windows 7

I agree with you.

3.0.
3.1 was much better on my 386DX PC.

Vista was the worst.
Dammit took so much space and was extremely slow >:(

I did not like Windows 95.  It was an attempt at moving forward and embraced despite the release delay by pointy-haired bosses.  It took over offices like a veneral disease.

windows me

Windows Vista: Windows desperately needed a security update at this point.

windows 8

Windows XP 64-bit & Windows Vista

definitely Vista!!!

windows 7…
best windows xp...

Windows ME has my vote.

I'm curious about those who say Win7 and XP. Those were the two strongest in my opinion.

Why?

for me, ME was the worst of the worst... It easily surpasses the crappy job they did with VISTA...

Windows 1.0

Others I can use for games etc, but no use for the 1.0 version and can't even install it anymore

For me, the worst Windows versions are: Windows ME and Windows Vista.

Windows 3.0 was horrific!

My vote goes to Windows XP 64 for the best version.

My best Windows was 8.1  :o

Windows? what is windows  ;D  i mostly use linux but sometimes i need windows i admit i use windows 7

Windows Vista worst version of Windows ever

Windows Vista (hated)

Linux rules...

http://cdn.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-best-linux-distros-for-beginners-switching-from-windows-mac-840x420.png?416b2e

Vista was pretty terrible for sure. It's probably the worst OS of all times.

Windows Vista is the worst one. No doubt.

Dude, did you ever use Windows 3.0? It beats Vista hands down!

I hate all windows versions equally..
Sure, I hate the default windows White theme

For me Windows ME and Windows Vista.

The worst windows version i ever had was windows vista, there was no driver compatibile

Windows 8 and above are shitty.

Windows vista too, but I never used it.

Others before 98 I don't know

Windows Vista was the worst.

Vista and Win 8 sucks!

Windows 10 will be the best version ever! I hope so  ::)

Windows 7

Vista definitely for me. XP was bad too.

Windows ME and Vista both were too buggy.

Windows that I used and experienced some shit things.

*Windows 2000
*Windows Vista
*Windows 8
*Window 8.1

all of the above :D

windows vista

Usually Windows OS's every other one is bad and and every other one is good. Like Windows ME = bad, Windows XP = good, vista bad and 7 good.

But personally the worst Windows OS's have been Windows ME and Vista.

I like windows 8.1 not the windows 8 as it was a bit buggy, but i dont like the last update of the 8.1

ME and the mobile platform stuff. ME had a great 'feature' during setup. If you did not have the video driver slip streamed on the disc the Next button would not be visible to click. The resolution would default to 640x480 and the Next button was off screen.

Strangely, my reaction to reading this thread is a slight twinge of nostalgia for DOS and the pre-Windows 3.11 era that I was barely old enough to experience.


C:\>win.com
Bad command or file name

C:\>



But to answer the question, Windows Me was abysmal, as was its predecessor.

Windows ME

History is repeating itself for Microsoft as well. Windows XP was great, which was followed by Vista which is horrible.
Then Windows 7 was released which was also a very good OS. I just recently got a new laptop with licensed Windows 8.1 . It is just horrible, and the sole reason for which I'm not going to downgrade is because the release of Windows 10 is so close. Luckily some companies listen to their customers and have made software that brings back the start menu from Windows 7.

I do not think that Windows 10 is going to be good either. This is the reason for which MS is going to let people upgrade for free; they wouldn't do it otherwise.

Windows xp was good until the windows 7 came up, no more worring for drivers(default) and i think windwos 8 / 8.1 / 10 are all same, based on cloud

Don't jinx it people, Windows 10 is going to be awesome.  ;D

Windows 7 ? have you gone mad ? I love windows 7 . It is perhaps the best windows version. The only thing I dislike about it is the boot time and the recovery from any software damage. Like if it gets corrupted once it cant find the exact bug.

Win Millenium  :-X

+1
In this forum there are many young people haha

Windows 7 i dont like it

Vista crashing all the way, didnt had any problems with win7....and i think vista=win10

windows Vista and windows 8 was bad too

windows vista was definitely the worst, 8 is pretty cool imo

Saw the title, thought vista, and now see everyone saying Vista ;D

The original Windows 8 was also quite poor.

Windows 8, simply because all the useless apps that I never asked for pisses me off!

Other than win 7, all versions of windows are worst. I didn't satisfy with those. Lets see how win 10 will became. :)

I have been playing with windows version since 2000's, and i liked the Windows 98 when we could bypass the password in login :P

Windows 7 and Windows XP

Windows Vista for me

Vista was worse.
ME was the second bad.

First we must take to account what was there at the time. I see some comparing Win 98 to nowadays platforms. That's obviously non-sense!
Then we've to notice MS had two branches of their OS up to Windows ME, Windows XP merged those branches; consumer branch: 3.1,95,98,ME / Enterprise branch: 3.11, NT, 2000.

Biggest changes occurred from Windows 3.1 to 95 and 3.11 to NT, later on merging both branches to XP and Windows 7 to 8 as it tried to make Windows suitable for both, PC's and tablets, and ended up making it suitable for none. Vista and 7 are more of a XP with a Longhorn make-up.

So for the best at their time:
Windows 3.1/3.11
Windows 98 SE/2000
Windows XP
Windows 7

Bug champions, but not the "worse" due to being breakthroughs at their time:
Windows NT4, Windows 95, Windows XP

On the realm of lousy ideas, even if they were a breakthrough:
Windows 8

Then we got the worse of them all; not quite pose any improvement, often just "cosmetic" and needlessly filled up the system with bugs:
Windows Vista, Windows ME

Windows 10: Still too soon to say something.

Windows 8, its awful.

never used vista so i guess i am going with 98

Windows 10 Botnet Edition.

Windows Vista for me I tried using it before..

Windows Vista worst version of Windows ever

I don't get those ppl that are saying W7 was the worst  :-\ :'(
By the way, 3.1 was awesome for it's time! :)

My personal TOP of worst Windows ever:

1. Windows Vista
2. Windows ME
3. Windows 95

and my TOP of best Windows ever:

1. Windows 7
2. Windows 98
3. Windows XP

Can't agree with peoples that think windows 7 is worst, infact it is the best version of window for me.
Infact i agree with most of the respectable members of this forum those who think that windows vista, windows 95, and windows  ME are the worst versions of windows.
I surveyed alot of teenagers that think that windows 8 is the worst for them. The reason for this type of thinking is that windows 8 has to be connected with the internet all the time.

windows millennium, my first pc

I vote for the infamous and buggy Windows ME in 1st place and Vista 2nd. Lots of hardware errors and bad perfomance with those two haha. Now I'm using windows 10 and I'm happy MS has finally given up and started to copy linux and android lol. When finally Linux becomes a widely supported platform for gaming just as windows is I'll be happy to move to Linux exclusively.

My best Windows was 8.1

Windows ME and Vista

Vista is the worst Windows in their history. So many bad thing put together in one very bad Windows. Maybe the 95, 2000 or any other older versions very worse, but they were running well on the computers from that period. But Vista had a lot of problems.

Not all are that bad, Windows XP was a very nice operating system. I was using it for almost 10 years and i am still using it on my back up computer.

Vista and Win 8

Win 95 was my first, a learning curve for the future editions.

Win 98SE was good

Vista was rubbish, worst ever.

XP Great O/S Never wanted to leave it behind.

Now I have WIN7 Not bad to work with.

Will I ever have Win10? Only when they stop updates for 7.

I never liked Windows 98

Windows ME and Vista both were too buggy.

I must say that Windows Vista was the worst Windows i have ever used. The Windows XP was far better that the Vista, so i got back to the XP after the awful experience with the Vista. As i can see, i am not the only one who think that the Vista was a very bad product by Microsoft.

windows 8 i guess

Windows ME

Windows 10.

I fear what will come in the next version of windows...

Windows 95:

Graced us with install and uninstall “wizards” that were more diabolical than wizardly. Got the term “DLL hell” into even wider circulation. Some of its icons and dialogs still surface in Windows 8 (take the clumsy network-adapter-properties window… please). Launched amid a torrent of hype that should shame all involved, not least those of us in the media.

according to my experiences first vista second windows 8

windows vista

Vista was total failure ???

Windows ME

Vista was even worse than Windows 10

For me Windows Vista was the worst Windows i have ever used. The Windows XP was far better that the Vista, so i got back to the XP after the awful experience with the Vista. As i can see, i am not the only one who think that the Vista was a very bad product by Microsoft.

1. Windows 8
2. Windows Vista
3. Windows 10

Starting to hate Windows 10 at the moment. The d*mn windows folder won't let me fix its placement in my screen, it resets all the time!

al type of windows.......no way to make good things

this 8.1 i hate

Windows vista was the worst.

I kinda like windows 10 though... :-\

win8 and vista

i think windows vista .


i'm using windows 10 its better other versions.

10, maybe followed by 98 and some previous ones

vista

Windows 8 and vista

Worst Windows ever was ME, followed by Vista and Windows 8, then the rest.

I wasn't happy the day I had my OS/2 Warp taken off me and given Windows 95, grew up in UNIX and will never like Windows as I know how stable a system can be.  On Y2K night system shutdown my main server had an up time of 9years plus without reboot.

UNIX the god of OS's

Can UNIX update without a reboot though.  I agree linux is good, tried ubuntu recently but its not perfect and not friendly enough for the average person though it could work in a business if 1 person were giving support, its really close to home userable now


Vista was good, ok then :D    to be fair i think was the drivers that bothered most, I skipped the whole thing till win 7

DOS was not even a windows and it never crashed so no!



WIN ME was actually good to start, literally it took a few seconds to reboot which was nice.   However it melted into oblivion after a while, Ive no idea why it fell over.  Was the whole OS based on a browser maybe, I remember you could animate the desktop background.  I had a drifting weather globe till crashing continually

I think the windows that are really long and tall are the worst windows for me because it is very hard to open them up all the way or hang decorative curtains up when you're only 5 ' 3"

All windows versions :D

I think it was Windows Me. Does anybody else remember that POS?

Windows Millennium, vista was very buggy as well. Best windows was XP (and maybe windows 7 too) IMO.

Millenium crashed like twice a week, no need re-installing because even on the installation i got a BSOD

I think it is windows 8

Yep, windows 8 for me also

Windows ME, used it for a short while and had to upgrade to 2000 very soon, XP is one of the best IMO.

windows 8

windows vista imo

Windows 8

1. Windows 8
2. Windows Vista

I hate windows 10 version that was just released. It had lots of bugs and I would just perform some basic things I do in the world of programming and marketing. It is a good idea that Microsoft came up with but I can tell you that they need to fix the bugs before I can be sure to make in other installation on my laptop and PC. I was therefore forced to go back to windows 8.1 which today has served me properly, cant just complain.

Windows 8 for sure. I have it currently running on my laptop, but I only use the normal desktop interface. Installing windows 7 on my laptop results in some functionality issue's due to the drivers not running properly on windows 7.

Vista

Never used Vista because I heard it wasn't worth switching to, but I have used win 8 and I hate it.

Windows 8

It was Vista but I must say that Windows 8 vanilla was really bad, too.

Windows Vista was a nightmare for me. I immediately changed back to XP. Then they came back with the greatest OS, called 7.

If you all remember, windows ME was the worst version ever made.  Their system sucked so bad, I stayed with windows 98se for the longest time!!  Now I am concerned with windows 10 and not being able to use my software for long periods of time, ti kept crashing when I was logged in for a long period of time, so I reloaded windows 7!

windows 8

I have to agree with you, hard to figure out what's wrong with its system. I have to reinstall it many times but in the end I downgraded to a previously stable lower version.

Windows vista and windows 8 sucks it ate so much ram and I cant play my online games smooth.

windows vista was the worst version of windows ever it sucks dude eat lot of my ram !

I think its windows 8

I think windows 8 , cause i dont know how to use haha :)

Well I will answer you an honest answer , It is windows vista  , It's a crap!  so windows release Windows 7 to make up with that crap.

windows me and windows vista. the worst system ever. I had vista on my laptop and my system was slowed total, he need 10 minutes to connect to internet...later i put win7 and everything was ok

Without any doubts...Vista and of course ME!

now im using windows 7
i like it for now. but if someday i want to change, maybe windows 10