Actually 4 and 5 were the best DOS, but no matter what DOS has it's hooks in the OS today. IBM PCDOS MSDOS NDOS (norton dos) DRDOS etc..
At my age (75) I hope to go the rest of my life with Windows XP. I don't know what Microsoft plans to do about supporting it in the future. I have XP on 4 computers and therefore am sitting on $400 worth of the Operating System.
Windows 98SE for its time, then 2000, but the best, so far is Windows XP Pro SP3. Windows 7 has to be really great to beat Windows XP Pro SP3.
Do you need to ask ? XP Pro naturally ! With some transformation pack for the GUI, like Vista Inspirat...
With every desktop version of NT, Microsoft had a server version. 3.1 Workstation was just called NT, and Server was Advanced Server Windows NT 3.5 Workstation Windows NT 3.5 Server Both of the above weren't very well known, with NT 4 it started to become well known Windows NT 4 Workstation Windows NT 4 Server Windows 2000 Professional Windows 2000 Server Windows XP Windows 2003 Server Vista 2008 Server My vote would be for 2003 Server for the servers....I'm still warming up to 2008 server. I'd say so far my vote for a desktop OS would be for XP..it had a much longer than usual lifespan. Vista has the bad rap of Windows ME. Windows 7 is looking very promising..but since it's not officially out yet..can't really count it.
1.Windows 7-first impressions are very good and this could be the best OS-fingers crossed 1.Windows XP Pro-most stable OS from Microsoft 2.Windows 98-was my first OS
I voted for XP. My first Microsoft text-based OS was MSDOS 4.01. My first Microsoft GUI-based OS was Windows 3.1. Windows XP was the first Microsoft OS that I did not feel a deep annoyance when using it. In other words, it was good enough. Decent stability (I can have uptimes without system crashes for 9+ months, disregarding questionable necessity of reboots for updates), decent multitasking, fantastic compability... IMO it is the first OS that Microsoft made that just stays out of the way; what an OS should do! Vista/Windows 7 doubles the system requirements just so that I can see windows flying around; not my idea of an OS that is staying out of the way! Actually Windows Server 2003 and 2008 are very good; unfortunately they are only directed at corporations who won't tolerate needless crap, unlike the glitz-dazzled average consumer.
XP sucked when it first came out ! XP became really solid when SP2 came out and IMO is the best desktop OS they made when they finally got it sorted out performance issues and got networking fixed. Win 2K was a good effort and IMO gets a close second before being quite a good complete package (for its time). I would say they got things right with Server 2003. Its still not as reliable as our Linux servers, but not bad enough to be annoying. Win2k Server had far too many security issues with IIS (we got hacked) and running SQL Server required too many reboots due to memory leaks that simply don't happen with Server 2003. Still they all beat ME. I remember my Uncle getting a new HP from PC World with ME and blue screening on its first boot and being told that its perfectly normal .
Perfectly normal for ME, maybe lol. Never used it, but i've heard many times it was just a cludge to boost sales between OS's. Bad move by MS, and of course those poor soles who coughed up $ for it !
Perhaps he means that we could differentiate further what people use, in this case the most used OS. However, since it's about "best", it's Pro for a fact.
I've used Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, XP & Vista; out of those, XP has been the best for me.
I give XP/SP-2 a slight edge over Windows 2000/SP-4 only because XP has the advantage of being the newer OS and benefiting from lessons learned from W2K. I would love to use Windows 2000 but my Dell E-510 won't properly display it due to the lack of proper drivers. I can get it about 75% correct, but that's not good enough. There is also the problem of secure browsing. If you must use Internet Explorer, you must use IE6 or earlier- not good at all. Vista was a half-baked idea upon it's release and then, MS turned off the oven ! Windows 7 looks to be a real and honest effort and while I plan to stick with XP, I believe W-7 will be a market success.
I'd like to know who the one person is that voted ME - that is surely a trolling effort. ME was the first OS I used and it was criminally unstable. Thankfully XP came soon and rescued me from the damnation of 99% cpu usage & BSOD.
Vista & its not even close... All the others crashed too much & vista was a complete disaster. I'm expecting windows 7 to be something like vista again + i'll need a computer so powerful to run it that the drivers wont be made yet Actually the hardware to run it wont be around until 2025... and thats the year of the terminator
Windows 7 runs fine right now with most Vista drivers etc. It's very clean, and much lighter than Vista overall. I'm sold.....
Yes. I would have differentiated between XP and XP Pro. I would have to then pick XP Pro from the bunch. I am not so sure between XP Home and Vista Home Premium, for instance. So Vista should have been differentiated between Home Basic through Ultimate. For instance, example only, there may be a significant population of people who would consider XP Pro over Vista Basic but maybe not over Vista Business.
So , what's wrong with the home editions ? XP Home is something less than XP Pro because of some not so big differences ? Well , these are editions - the OS is Windows XP
