Oooooohhh.... a Microsoft bashing thread! 
Did you guys know that win7 is actually, win 6.1, where Vista was 6.0...
And win8 is 6.2... win8.1 is 6.3... arghhh! you get the picture.... it's all the same thing with slightly different skins.
My home PC came clean and I put XP on it.... worked well enough, but then I just had to try Vista.
Vista worked equally well, so I just let it stay.
About 2 years after win7 entered the scene, I managed to come across a legit win7 DVD with key and all... so I installed that one. Worked just as well.
Haven't ventured into win8 yet, since the hardware is getting a bit old, but I don't anticipate much trouble.
Oh, I lie... When I got an SSD for my laptop, I put win8.1 in it and it failed to get proper drivers for the touchpad and the webcam was upside down (and the usual tricks to get it back straight didn't work), so I went back to win7. Apart from missing drivers (or drivers that refused to install because "oh no, these drivers are not for this version of windows!" -.-'), it worked well enough.
Back in the day, I had a Pentium III with win98SE... at some point, it started giving explorer.exe errors every 5 minutes or so, so I decided to try the new kid on the block, WinME. Apart from not having a native dedicated command line, it worked well enough.... better than 98SE, as it didn't have explorer errors.
I am possibly one of the few people who have no complaints regarding winME and WinVista... and I count myself among the tech savvy ones...
I don't know why they just worked well, for me... Maybe it has to do with the way I obsessively tweak the OS options to do things the way I want, instead of relying on default settings...
Or maybe it has to do with the usage of Netscape, instead of IE... oh, it changed name into Firefox along the way...
Did you guys know that win7 is actually, win 6.1, where Vista was 6.0...
And win8 is 6.2... win8.1 is 6.3... arghhh! you get the picture.... it's all the same thing with slightly different skins.
My home PC came clean and I put XP on it.... worked well enough, but then I just had to try Vista.
Vista worked equally well, so I just let it stay.
About 2 years after win7 entered the scene, I managed to come across a legit win7 DVD with key and all... so I installed that one. Worked just as well.
Haven't ventured into win8 yet, since the hardware is getting a bit old, but I don't anticipate much trouble.
Oh, I lie... When I got an SSD for my laptop, I put win8.1 in it and it failed to get proper drivers for the touchpad and the webcam was upside down (and the usual tricks to get it back straight didn't work), so I went back to win7. Apart from missing drivers (or drivers that refused to install because "oh no, these drivers are not for this version of windows!" -.-'), it worked well enough.
Back in the day, I had a Pentium III with win98SE... at some point, it started giving explorer.exe errors every 5 minutes or so, so I decided to try the new kid on the block, WinME. Apart from not having a native dedicated command line, it worked well enough.... better than 98SE, as it didn't have explorer errors.
I am possibly one of the few people who have no complaints regarding winME and WinVista... and I count myself among the tech savvy ones...
I don't know why they just worked well, for me... Maybe it has to do with the way I obsessively tweak the OS options to do things the way I want, instead of relying on default settings...
Or maybe it has to do with the usage of Netscape, instead of IE... oh, it changed name into Firefox along the way...
