Here's a vote for BOB!

BTW, BOB's Project-Manager was Melinda French, who married Bill Gates just before its release.

great screen!!

=)

I think it was supposed to look like Bill Gates, actually...

I'm surprised that there are more votes for XP Pro than XP Home.

Ugh...ME <shudders>

I think that this poll has to be taken with a little grain of salt. When people vote for this, I think that they should take into consideration the time period in which the OS was released. For example, when Win95 came out, it was a huge improvement upon the previous version (3.11). While it did have it's fair share of (ok, maybe many) problems, there was no widespread internet access for everyone to download a quick fix for a problem that popped up. Only around the time of Win98SE did Microsoft start using Windows Update to help patch small problems.

I agree completely with the fact that Windows ME was terrible, in any day and age. I remember being able to use a built-in utility to cause a memory leak within ME. After doing this about 10 times, Windows would complain about low memory and recommended that I shut down some programs... even though I had none going.

As for those of you who voted XP (except those that misunderstood the poll) I think that you should take a closer look into what is generally needed by people in an OS. If you need high-end graphics development, leave this forum and go buy yourself a Mac. If you need something that can do just about everything decently well, XP is a great OS. While the original release had it's problems, Microsoft has been quite good about rectifying the problem with Windows Update. As for those people who b***h and moan about the fact that there are many security holes and that XP needs so many anti-stuff programs, a computer is just like any machine. It needs to be maintained. Defragging your hard drive and scanning your computer is just like changing your oil in your car. All in all, XP is the working computer equivalent of what car manufacturers are trying to do with the (crappy)crossover cars, everything in one convenient package.

As for that "compression bloatware", some of us actually use that. If I've got a lot of files that I need to backup every now and then, and I've got a relatively small 40GB external drive, the compression comes in quite handy. I've been able to make that 40 gig drive look like a 55 gig drive from time to time.

For those of you who still use the command line in DOS, what is wrong with you? Unix dominates the entire command line world, hands down. I know that the server that runs the local coal port here in Vancouver, Canada has been running Unix 24/7/365 for the past 24 years! No crashes, no downtime, just keeps everything moving along at a good pace. Sure, it's only got to deal with schedules and when ships are coming and going, but it works.

Anyways, ME sucks monkey nuts, XP works great.

i would like to see it running doom3 under win ME... (j/k)
i agree with you on everything

great Zxian! Long life to your words


no hair anymore? poor uncle bill

@ SimonSays & magicfly

Thanks for the replies.

As for running Doom3 on an ME machine, I don't think that Doom3 will even install on an ME machine. The minimum specs say XP...

I've tryed to sell a sealed box of ME on ebay twice and no one brought it. It cost me more money for the listing fee than I was asking originally for the product.

-M

Blackcomb should not be on a list of os'es that suck as it has not even been coded yet

What is Blackcomb ¿¿

okay I see ....

thats not blackcomb its xp with a stardock theme
it has not even been coded yet
btw me was not that bad i think it was a big improvement over 98
xp is the best with sp2

ME

What Ever !

The Link

The Video

@army20 take a look at the title of those pictures "Fake Blackcomb Screenshots".

all of them are fakes and if we know the fact that it will be released post-longhorn, you can imagine there still isn't created an interface and less a theme.
what you can see there are some screens of stardock themes that is how people imagine blackcomb (personally i doubt blackcomb can be relased ever or at least with that codename).

Worst ever: Win Mistaken Edition! Hands down. Actually, all of Win9x -- a real BSODfest.

what is the purpose of this voting?

to prove that ME really sucks and should never been released
otherwise this was an old topic..

though I must say I agree with Zxian

win98 was widely used, well at least by me, i had used it for such a long time, then tried ME, didn't like the idea of getting new drivers, new programs, new version of everything which didn't quite work well, and along the release of ME there was w2k, i quickly switched over to w2k because there was something wrong about ME. (i cannot recall my memories) but at the time when I got ME, there wasn't much talk on how ME sucks, so when I got it I just used most of its functions and hated it so much, I was so used to 98 & 98se and I was even used to the crashes and created my own improvements and to-do's when 98 was going to crash or crashed. with ME it was different it wasn't the taste i was looking for, most things that worked on 98 didn't work on ME, games, apps.

at that time w2k was sooo good! switching over to it and getting driver updates was even more fun bc it felt right with w2k. and it didn't look any fancier than 98 nor ME.

I know some say that they used ME and liked it, i can only say that either they didn't use it as much as those who hate ME or they are simple too calm and never tried to do multi-tasking and used memory-hungry apps to get ME to crash.

XP is by far the best Os yet. I dunno why home and pro would be rated differently bc i don't think there are much differences in them, in which i mean if u're going to use pro's features and bought home version and bc of that hated the home version I cannot say anything, but pro is not so different from home and I use both.

and as for dos i cannot really compare it with windows

for server editions i'm sure ppl who use them are pretty happy with them, or at least found ways to improve it,

so at the end I like M$, and someone asked why $ rather then S and i'd say its bc of the marketing purposes on releases on ME and billy being the richest guy

and as for Zxian comments, i agree on windows not being the most secure or whatever u want to call it, it simply cannot be, nothing is perfect, your friends, your car, your etc. everyone tries to make better, yes MS might be delaying or not doing some stuff in the best manner but there are alternatives so either get used to it or switch......

ME stinks.

Anyone who uses it must apply the Microsoft Fix asap - called XP!

xp spk2 and millenium

I'm having trouble with DOS 6.22 being called a "version of Windows". For the record my WinME box didn't crash repeatedly. I won't say it is was better than Win98 but I don't think it deserves the bashing. I think Win98SE was more unstable than WinME.

First, just something that caught my attention; but shouldn't this be in the Polls section?

Anyways! Out of all the OS' that I have used, I do not care for Win XP Home at all. I've touched base/used all of the Windows OS' except for Windows 2003 and Longhorn.

95 (default OS) was good, but it had it's moments. Upgraded to 98 and my computer would never auto-shutoff like it used to.

New computer with WinME, no real problems at all. All these errors that people talk about I never see. Perhaps because Windows ME was the default OS so it was just made for it? I don't know. But I do know that it's very stable and can handle a LOT of abuse. My computer is four years old now and still running Windows ME. I still manage to boot at 95% system resources free, and have managed to have 99% resources free.

Used Windows 2k Pro at my last job and I was impressed, but even it was a bit crash happy. Then again, put idiotic bankers behind an OS and anything can happen. ;)

At a friends LAN party, it was one computer running Windows XP Home, laptop using XP Home, and two others running Windows XP Pro. Pro showed the most stability.

My friend whom has the XP Home pc has had so many problems with it, it wasn't even funny. Now I see why I was always over there. When we weren't playing games on the pc it was fixing errors and such.

For the few major errors I have had on my Windows ME computer, using GoBack has saved me every time. You avoid the hassle and stress of formatting when you can simply go back to a previous time and everything is working good as new.

I vote for ME but i have hesitate with the XP versions...
Too heavy, too slow, to playskool icons like, too dummy interfaced :/

Windows 2000 Pro SP4 is the best for a STABLE and USEFULL machine.

this losser did

I have 4 machines at home 2 on XP PRO 1 XP HOME and 1 ME

havent had to do a thing to the ME machine (Pentium 700Mhz 256ram) yet it runs better than the other 3
both on XPpro AMD 3.0 512 ram has to be reformatted at least twice a year(1 is duel boot with linux)
XP HOME pentiun2.8 512 ram has to be reformatted every few months

yet the ME machine hasn't been reformatted at all since orginal install 4 years ago never throws up errors doesn't get bogged down with crap and doesn't get attaked by viruses

I like XP for ease of use but reliability a big fat ZERO.
IF more games become avalible on linux i wouldnt even use windows

therefore i think that the argument of what windows version is worst is irrelivent cos they all suck its only by what amount that varys

so there

And how do you quantify or qualify OS's that get more logjammed with junk as you install and uninstall programs or time goes by with who knows what going on inside? How about the amount of time you use trying to clear it out or go to the old fallback, like I do, of just re-installing the OS? It seems like everyday it gets slower and slower. I'm using XP Home at the moment and though it is relatively easy to use, it takes a real wiz to figure out a new way to modify it in any significant way. At work, I use an old 500MHZ w/ 98SE and it locks up because I use a light weight CAD program on it and it just gets overloaded and sometimes I will install a program that for whatever reason, it just can't handle it.

I've used 3.11, 95, 98SE and XP Home. XP Home has done the least locking up, with the exeption of what a keyboard did to it once. You would think that with Windows being the dominant OS and what seems like everybody and his brother writing programs for it and making hardware for it that it would be a lot more stable and adaptable than it is. But, I'm not a techie, never will be one and boy can I butcher the guts of an OS.

As the which Windows sucks the most, I vote for the blue one.

I voted for Windows 95. I prefer Windows ME over 98. It is almost the same (s***), but ME ¿booted? faster and I wanted to use Windows Movie Maker for some home-made humorous videos . Although Windows 95 was "more stable" than 98/ME, those "command.com", "win.ini", etc.. issues and "folder navigation" were frustating.

I Vote Me.
But let me say this, it all depends. Meaning that if the OS is loaded on unstable hardware it wont matter what the OS is. I can speak from experince. I am not speaking of bad hardware, just unstable. I have also seen that a system can be unstable from one reload of windows to the next with the same hardware and software /drivers. Been there, done that.
I reformat my system about every 1 to 2 months. (Dont ask, it's just my habbit.)

I also will ask/say that this poll needs clearing up on something. Are we talking about when the OS first came out or with all SPs/fix's? IF when first came out then remember that Win2k needed something like 100 fix's in first couple of month's after it's release to fix lots of holes.

It also occur's to me that pourly written /bad drivers can bring down a good OS.

With all I've said.....
ME still Suck's

I've used DOS 6.22, Win95/95a/95b, Win98/98se, WinME, Win2k (Sp1-SP4), WinXP Pro (RTM - SP2) and I have to say that I absolutely love XP. The only reason I even used WinME was because at one of the MS roadshows I got a free copy of it. It lasted one week and my computer was crashing like crazy. Needless to say, it went bye-bye. So you can probably guess which OS I voted on. But then again, as the Three Dead Trolls in a baggie sing, Every OS Sucks

Another vote for ME

I voted ME but
I didn't have the problems others had after I discovered to install my Upgrade CD as a full version.
My beginning day's at the Unattend but not really Unattended if you know what I mean. I also hated they tried to kill DOS with it but was grateful it was back in XP and theres even a future Dos by different name coming up that's more like Nix.

Ya, when I fix computers I refuse to install anything lower than 2K. And if they dont want to isntall an NTOS, then I'm gone. But I would say the worst os next to the 9x series would be XP Home

Win ME.

But actually its any version that crashes while you are at the end of an important project.

WIn XP has a lot of restrictions (at work).

At home Win XP, its the coolest.

i've used em all
me is by far the worst,it's too picky with hardware and software,i had 98 se on for over a year and it was rock solid,the time i upgraded me i had problems here and there 24/7
i have an xp comp that has isa hardware(soundcard)and it works,under me it didn't
so from my experince 98 se is far better than me,2000 is very good but with sp4 it's too slow so use sp3 instead,xp is the best os i've used(longhorn betas suck)windows 95 was good in it's days,xp pro is far better,like if you want the windows installer v3 you can't install it under home but under pro you can,dos was good in it's days,windows 3.1 was the first os i used then upgraded to 95 then 98 then 98 se(98 se is still my favorite os even though i use xp pro+sp1 most of the time)

ewwww.... ME sucks hard. Glad i got ride of that software nightmare!

Windows Me because it is crashed very often

ME too..lol iupgraded to ME from 98se..and it used to crash atleast 5 times an hour ...then finaly junked it and went for XP..which is really nice:)

Windows ME.
XP SP2 nLited

ME cause it crashed all the time. like 5-10 times a 3 hour computing session.
2003 is second only cause i can't fully install hardware drivers. otherwise 2003 is very nice.

WinME had sooooooo many problems with it. Froze 1/2 the time.

ME.... hate that stuff

ME is the suck!!!!!!

Windows 98SE has been a major pain in my a** for a long time on my old computer. I did a fresh install and got a new hard drive and it still is a POS. I love XP.

Every time I start the old comp up I get the message that vspf_hk.vxd is missing from the registry on Sys INI. I can't get that to stop. Once it starts up, it still freezes.

I hate longhorn too...

But thumbs down for Window ME..... Makeshift Edition

i dunno if ME really sucked all that bad. Let me tell you a little story:

In January 2001 my dad bought a Dell Dimension 4100 with Windows ME on it for me. To tell you the truth, I had less problems using it than when I used Windows 98. The only error messages came up maybe at most once a month, if even that. Also, ME has all the fixes included, unlike 98. It ran all my games just fine. I think 98 crashed two times when I used it and had to reload all the apps.

The only bad part about ME was installing drivers off the web. If that driver was corrupted in any sort of way, ME wouldn't boot. But that was my error :whistle:

I enjoyed using it for 3 years.

I voted WinBLOWS ME. Not that it wasn't a good OS, just that it was a little rushed and didn't stand up to Windows 98 at the time.

win ME in my opioion was more stable than win 98..always got random bs messages sayin illegal error..like wtf...lol...xp pro rocks

Windows NT 4. Reason no usb support officialy and no drect x and kernel upgrades. To many service packs. Prro video dectection. No regular safe mode.

Voted for 95. No ICS, lots of BSOD's, etc.

Would love to vote for than than one entry. ME would next on my list.

Windows ME is up there with the old Microsoft BOB interface....