What's Your Favorite Windows Operating System

Added Windows 7 as an option in the poll.

Welcome veilx.

Win98SE, FTW. The last "Windows" I truly loved.

i liked windows XP, i would put it on this rig but it feels a little late at this point in the game.

vista is still a solid OS though

I like Vista it has worked very well for me.

I like the stability of XP, but Vista is so awesome though. I would have voted for Windows 7, but I'm not going to place my opinion on a trial .

Where is Windows 3.1? I would have voted for it, but I guess I'll settle for XP Professional.

Calibretto said:

Where is Windows 3.1?

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Added it. lol.

Windows ME

I can't believe no one has mentioned ME. For stability it had no rivals (thank the gods). In fact if it was not for Windows ME I probably never would have made the switch to linux all those many years ago. ME was horrible. Been using linux ever since.

If I could vote now, honestly, id vote Windows ME.

I used it as my main OS from 2000 to 2005 with absolutely no problems on my HP Pavilion 7810. I have not even witnessed a lock up, seriously. I don't know why everyone hated it.

Windows XP & 7 have my vote.

I'm surprised how well Vista's doing... I guess I need to try Vista Business more, but Home Premium has been nothing but trouble for me...

As for my personal vote, I said XP Pro. I feel that was the last OS that still left a fair amount of power to the user. Vista is nothing but a bunch of pointless wizards, usless UAC, and simplified lists of icons (IE the new control pannel) that make things even more complicated to use. While some of these things can be disabled, many things can't be, or can't be in Windows 7. So... XP was the best, Vista was the beginning of the end

mep916 said:

Added Windows 7 as an option in the poll.

Welcome veilx.

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hmm i guess i should have waited a lil... hmmm.... (Thanks for the welcome, i hope to come here often)

just plain windows xp

Windows 2000 Pro,damn i loved that OS it never let me down like Vista does.
Xp was based on 2000 (i think?) and that was also a great os.

I'm not gonna vote.

I like XP, but the RAM is extremely limited. (I can't even use all 3GB that I have - it only sees 2.75GB) The 64-bit version of XP sucks support wise. Vista is too hardware demanding, but it runs like a dream if you have the right stuff.

Windows Vista/7 (preferably 7) for me. Ever try installing Win XP on a laptop? The dam*n OS wouldn't even recognize your ethernet/graphics adapter. And, if you only had one computer and lack the ethernet & graphics drivers while re-installing WinXP, you're screwed, graphics- and net-wise, because there would be no way for you to download those drivers (read: ethernet non-functional). With Vista, at least the ethernet works on re-install, so you could go online and download the proper drivers, instead of the Windows default.

Mac OS X Leopard !!

Windows Vista Home Premium is my favorite OS. I find it odd that Windows7 is an option as it's only in beta right now. I've downloaded a beta build of Windows7 but I've not tried it yet. I'm just so perfectly happy with Windows Vista. I run Vista on 3 computers, 2 desktops and 1 laptop.

alienationware said:

Windows Vista/7 (preferably 7) for me. Ever try installing Win XP on a laptop? The dam*n OS wouldn't even recognize your ethernet/graphics adapter. And, if you only had one computer and lack the ethernet & graphics drivers while re-installing WinXP, you're screwed, graphics- and net-wise, because there would be no way for you to download those drivers (read: ethernet non-functional). With Vista, at least the ethernet works on re-install, so you could go online and download the proper drivers, instead of the Windows default.

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I've installed Windows XP on several laptops for different people. These laptops ranged from 7-2 years old. Each time XP found functioning drivers within the OS for ethernet, audio, graphics, etc.

Windows XP was great but too many people are hanging onto it. Let it go people . I suppose you might as well wait until Win7 is released now.

I'm surprised how well Vista's doing... I guess I need to try Vista Business more, but Home Premium has been nothing but trouble for me...

As for my personal vote, I said XP Pro. I feel that was the last OS that still left a fair amount of power to the user. Vista is nothing but a bunch of pointless wizards, usless UAC, and simplified lists of icons (IE the new control pannel) that make things even more complicated to use. While some of these things can be disabled, many things can't be, or can't be in Windows 7. So... XP was the best, Vista was the beginning of the end

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I simply don't have any trouble with Vista Home Premium. Have you installed it on older hardware? Even then I've installed it on my older desktop that must be about 4-5 years old now. It was a high end game rig for it's time though and has 4GB's of ram, a decent GPU etc. I have it installed on my new game rig and also on a laptop I bought nearly a year ago. I use two of my computers daily (newest game rig and laptop) and they run superbly. UAC is simply junk I agree, you can disable it as you said, so I don't see a problem there. The new control panel... well I don't know because I use "Classic View". Vista is heavily bloated which is just dumb. But still, it has many great features. If you have a decent rig then there should be no problems really.

Windows XP was my favorite. I hated all Windows OS's until XP. I ran Linux actually until the release of XP. Although I always had a Windows OS as a duel boot for games. I always longed for some eye candy with Windows, and apps like Windowblinds and others did not cut it with me. Vista got released and I fell in love with it. I feel it's very unfortunate that so many had such a bad experience with it and gave up on it. I always felt that if people were willing to upgrade to Vista, then they should be willing to pay for some decent hardware as well. I mean any modern machine will run it. Memory has got fairly cheap and HD's are getting larger. My oldest desktop runs it perfectly and that was built at least 3'ish years before Vista's release.

Oh and Windows7 is basically Vista upgraded. One thing is for sure, I'm going to miss Vista when Win7 is released. I'll surely switch early only because I always need to have what's most recent. Why then would I miss Vista if Win7 is Vista upgraded? Well I'm not so sure about that Win7 taskbar... Looks a bit wierd to me, I've always liked the one in Vista.

Even though I use XP home edition I liked windows 98 it was simpe yet secure and did everything that I needed it to and it didnt take much RAM so you could be doing more things at the same time