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For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - anarky - 03-17-2007
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=231&tag=nl.e622
ZDNet rated them. I have to agree here with every system except for Windows Vista, which I do not have the hardware requirements for as of yet.
Your turn.
For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - Skyler - 03-17-2007
Fedora Core 3: 7
Ubuntu Edgy Eft: 9
Oh wait, those aren't Windows... never mind.
For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - Plasma - 03-17-2007
Hrmm, it's missing Windows 1.0 and 2.0. I'd switch the scores for Windows 3.x and 95, other than that I pretty much agree. Except for Vista, which I'd give a 3 or 4.
For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - Skyler - 03-17-2007
There was a Windows 1.0 and 2.0?
For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - anarky - 03-17-2007
Yeh, they look like the QBIDE,,,
For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - NecrosIhsan - 03-18-2007
I have a copy of Windows 1.01 archived on one of my zillions of CDROMs...maybe I'll dig it up one day and mess with it again, it's pretty fun to see how these ancient systems worked...or didn't work.
For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - RayBritton - 03-19-2007
I owned a windows 1.0 until about a year ago (well possibly longer, I didn't check it until a year ago), I liked it, it never crashed.
For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - DrV - 03-19-2007
I'd probably rate Windows 2000 a little lower and XP a little higher; the main reason for this would be the inclusion of IPv6 support in Windows XP (yes, I know there's "experimental" IPv6 support for Windows 2000, but it only works on SP1, not SP4, which is the latest, and yes, I do use the IPv6 support.
I know these ratings are supposed to be placed in a historical context, but that's not much of an excuse - the BSDs and Linux had IPv6 support in the mid-1990s).People tend to look through rose-colored glasses at the past and forget all the not-so-rosy parts, which is probably part of the reason Windows 2000 (and Windows 3.x) is rated so highly.
I'm also a bit surprised that XP SP2 is rated separately, since previous Windows service packs and patches had a similar effect on earlier versions of Windows (although maybe not in such a single large step).
For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - NovaProgramming - 03-20-2007
I remember seeing Windows 1.0 on my friend's computer once... and thinking... "Wow, WTF is this thing?"
I *did* find QBasic on it, though. So that was fun. I made a fake formatting program and scared the bejesus out of him
For the ten distinct versions of Windows thus far... - Skyler - 03-21-2007
ha ha, you sound like my brother... he wrote a program which told its user that the computer was under attack by the Blaster virus and was going to format its hard drive.