Once you hide MetroUI and install a 3rd party startbar there’s no frankensteining involved. It’s just an updated Win7 after that. At least on the surface.
Windows 95 = [COLOR=‘DarkGreen’]Good
Microsoft Bob = [COLOR=‘Red’]Bad
Windows 98 = [COLOR=‘DarkGreen’]Good
Windows ME = [COLOR=‘Red’]Bad
Windows 2000/XP = [COLOR=‘DarkGreen’]Good
Windows Vista = [COLOR=‘Red’]Bad
Windows 7 = [COLOR=‘DarkGreen’]Good
Windows 8 = [COLOR=‘Red’]Bad
Windows 9 = ???
Windows 10 = Profit!
Funny how I used Vista for over 5 years and I never got why everyone hated it until I got Win7 and actually looked back at it :fffuuu:
though really I never found out why it was that bad sure Win7 is better but Vista somehow never seemed seemed all that different from it to me[/SIZE]
I still don’t know why everyone hated it. Was it just bloated or what?
Horrible compatibility with Win9x software, half baked Sidebar that looked like shit, initially quite unstable/insecure. Only every other Microsoft OS can really be considered serviceable.
More specific example: My mom’s friend, a former Apple employee, was really pissed at how hard it was to get my Vista laptop to use her printer. Instead of being in a unified Printer UI, there was like, two separate printer programs that both had to work instead of just one. In completely different folders. It was just a royal PITA. In fact, we couldn’t get it to work at all and I just wound up sending the document to another computer in the house and printing with that.
win 9x was dos based, cheap(relatively) very unstable and basically indicative of what microsoftie thought of its home user base. NT was stable and $. Multi processor support, great for enterprise but lacking 3d graphics support. Win2000 hit it out of the park. Stable, easy to use, well supported, multi-processor support. Xp home blew chunks. No mp support but stable and good networking. XP pro, as awesome as win2k. I had to buy it to install microsoftie on my Mac and used it until 2012. Vista sucked so bad I never used it. Win7 has been great. Everyone I know hates win8, just like vista
Back in 06 (1 year before Vista came out) I used to test beta versions and they were all relatively as stable as XP (if not more) but when the final retail build hit my PC I started getting BSOD’s and almost instantly switched to ubuntu for 2 years.
I used Vista for about two years I think, I honestly never had any problems with it. I think I had a BSOD maybe twice.
I realize I may have been lucky with the peripherals I was using though (hardly any).
Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’:
https://bgr.com/2014/01/17/microsoft-windows-8-vista-comparison/