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There's a rule for Windows versions: you should skip every second one. So the right sequence is: install Windows 95 skip Windows 98 install Windows 2000 ski

There's a rule for Windows versions: you should skip every second one. So the right sequence is: install Windows 95 skip Windows 98 install Windows 2000 skip Windows ME install Windows XP skip Windows Vista install Windows 7 skip Windows 8 install Windows 10 skip Windows 11 This is so consistent that I beleive there are two teams inside MS alternately developing next version. They say, though, that Windows 11 is the last version and there will be only updates since. I really hope this is not the case.

dagw 4y ago
They say, though, that Windows 11 is the last version and there will be only updates since. I really hope this is not the case. It was actually Windows 10 they said that about, so...
- genewitch 4y ago
  right, because apple said Mac OS X (1998 or so) was the last version they were going to release. from new era Macs it went 7, 8, 9, X. Then intel macs, still macos X. I do know they're up to version 16 or something of whatever the OS is called these days. probably just MacOS. I didn't believe either of them!
warner25 4y ago
The ads are baked into Windows 10 too, although might be worse in 11.
yamtaddle 4y ago
Win95 was widely regarded as being shit prior to the C version IIRC (I had A, though, and always really liked it...) Win98se was considered damn good, compared to what had come before. Disruption for little benefit, at launch, though. 2K was only for businesses, bad driver support and lacking in some software support on account of using the NT kernel before hardware & software vendors were expecting home users to have it. ME was a pointless refresh of 98. Buggier and with system menus subtly messed-with to no purpose. The first miss-step of the Vista/8 variety. XP was good by SP3. Not so much at launch. Vista, yeah, slow as hell while adding nothing. 7 was still slow as hell, but wasn't as ugly and our hardware had gotten better so it was less-noticeable. Not much to recommend it aside from "XP's going out of support, and it's less-ugly than Vista". 8 was pointless and ugly, like Vista. 10 was another 7: de-uglified 8, but not much else going for it. Adware and shitware and spyware galore. This leaves 7 as the last "good" Windows. 11's 10 on steroids, so, two scoops of shit instead of one.
- xxs 4y ago
  The GP list misses 8.1 which I consider the last actually good Windows, and the support has dwindled, esp. with the push of DX12... and AMD outright no supporting it at all, when it comes to GPUs.
- fifteen1506 4y ago
  Windows Vista was good by SP1 but required 2GB of RAM. WinSxS disk usage was only fixed on Win7, though. I actually miss all those transparent windows :)
  - ridgered4 4y ago
    > Windows Vista was good by SP1 but required 2GB of RAM. WinSxS disk usage was only fixed on Win7, though. Was it? I remember they added a tool that claimed it would clean it up but in practice it didn't seem to do much. I thought Windows 10 just papered over the whole mess by doing an in place upgrade of the whole OS every 6-12 months.

dagw 4y ago

They say, though, that Windows 11 is the last version and there will be only updates since. I really hope this is not the case. It was actually Windows 10 they said that about, so...

genewitch 4y ago
right, because apple said Mac OS X (1998 or so) was the last version they were going to release. from new era Macs it went 7, 8, 9, X. Then intel macs, still macos X. I do know they're up to version 16 or something of whatever the OS is called these days. probably just MacOS. I didn't believe either of them!

warner25 4y ago

The ads are baked into Windows 10 too, although might be worse in 11.

yamtaddle 4y ago

Win95 was widely regarded as being shit prior to the C version IIRC (I had A, though, and always really liked it...) Win98se was considered damn good, compared to what had come before. Disruption for little benefit, at launch, though. 2K was only for businesses, bad driver support and lacking in some software support on account of using the NT kernel before hardware & software vendors were expecting home users to have it. ME was a pointless refresh of 98. Buggier and with system menus subtly messed-with to no purpose. The first miss-step of the Vista/8 variety. XP was good by SP3. Not so much at launch. Vista, yeah, slow as hell while adding nothing. 7 was still slow as hell, but wasn't as ugly and our hardware had gotten better so it was less-noticeable. Not much to recommend it aside from "XP's going out of support, and it's less-ugly than Vista". 8 was pointless and ugly, like Vista. 10 was another 7: de-uglified 8, but not much else going for it. Adware and shitware and spyware galore. This leaves 7 as the last "good" Windows. 11's 10 on steroids, so, two scoops of shit instead of one.

xxs 4y ago
The GP list misses 8.1 which I consider the last actually good Windows, and the support has dwindled, esp. with the push of DX12... and AMD outright no supporting it at all, when it comes to GPUs.
fifteen1506 4y ago
Windows Vista was good by SP1 but required 2GB of RAM. WinSxS disk usage was only fixed on Win7, though. I actually miss all those transparent windows :)
- ridgered4 4y ago
  > Windows Vista was good by SP1 but required 2GB of RAM. WinSxS disk usage was only fixed on Win7, though. Was it? I remember they added a tool that claimed it would clean it up but in practice it didn't seem to do much. I thought Windows 10 just papered over the whole mess by doing an in place upgrade of the whole OS every 6-12 months.