Poll - Best versions of Windows of all-time (how to, memory, folder)

[K-Luv]

Originally Posted by Trucker7

So $200 ÷ 3 years = $67 per year and all that for playing games? No thanks, I'll pass.

Not trying to harp on you, but this made me think (and chuckle); how much money in quarters do you think you spent at the arcade when you were younger?

[Trucker7]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

Not trying to harp on you, but this made me think (and chuckle); how much money in quarters do you think you spent at the arcade when you were younger?

Me, none. I spent my parent's quarters.

[rsh56]

Split between the 7 and XP.


Everyone knows XP wins. Even though I hate windows, XP was very user friendly and is still the preferred way of getting things done.

[JimRom]

Originally Posted by Trucker7

Me, none. I spent my parent's quarters.

I worked at an arcade, I got paid to play games to draw people in

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by NHDave

I fail to see that difference. XP was released in 2001, since then Vista and Windows 7 have arrived, and XP is still plugging along (doesn't sound obsolete to me), with updates and patches to be released until 2014, at that time it will be long overdue for retirement, most people don't keep cars for 13 years yet they have no quams spending $25k or more, and your complaining about a $200 investment having to be replaced after that amount of time?

It's called progress, new hardware and software that need features that XP doesn't have, would you rather that hardware and software developement have come to a standstill once XP was released?

It's a bit disingenuous to imply that most new users need the new features being touted in the Next Great Version of Windows. My XP installation on my work desktop has been running very well since 2004, and will continue to serve my needs for the next 20 years. Or it would, were it not for Microsoft changing APIs in their applications for no real good technical reason. I use standard applications (Office, Firefox) and terminal emulators (mainly PuTTY and UTS Express) in addition to a few less traditional programs from a desktop viewpoint (Abyss, Eclipse, VMWare). No real big need to change those or the way they operate.

I understand why MS does what it does. Corporations are all about greed, and MS is no exception to this. The truth is that OEMs are MS's real customers, not end users, and we're just the folks who get stuck with the result after MS has already made its money from the hardware distrbutors...

It's called progress? No. Drivers for new hardware are trivial to write. A properly designed OS with completely isolated shell and kernel layers would make it easy to release shell and API updates without touching the kernel. Try again.

[plwhit]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

I've been running XP exclusively since it came out and frankly can't remember any BSOD's except when I was overclocking one system a few years ago.

Almost the same with me, except my system would just lock up solid after tweaking the CPU a little too high.

Outside of that XP has been solid as a rock for the last few years for me.

[slackjaw]

Originally Posted by rsh56

Everyone knows XP wins.

Well, except for the people in the poll above that picked Windows 7 as a majority.

[gramirez2012]

In no particular order: 95, 98SE, 2000, XP, 7.

[IXCell]

I liked XP a lot. I am ok with 7. Hated Vista with a passion. Once I started working with Vista, I went back and downgraded to XP.

[stevebri]

There is a GOOD version of windows? News to me.