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August 24, 2015, 04:06:27 PM |
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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.
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