View Poll Results: Which is your all time favorite version of Windows? (select 1)

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  • Windows 98-SE

    1 9.09%
  • Windows ME

    0 0%
  • Windows 2000

    0 0%
  • Windows XP SP-3

    1 9.09%
  • Windows 7

    6 54.55%
  • Windows 8.1

    0 0%
  • Windows 10

    3 27.27%
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Thread: Your all time favorite Windows version

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    Orca Whisperer N1LAF's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by W3WN View Post
    Which NT? 3.51 or 4?

    Don’t forget NT’s original name, either... Micro$oft OS/2.

    Vista gets a bad rap, but it was really a good OS... if you ran it on the proper hardware platform. Too many Vista machines were underpowered out of the box, and some of the bloat that M$ built or left in didn’t help one bit. A few inevitable bug fixes, some bloat removal, and Vista 2.0 turned into a good, stable OS.

    Don’t remember Vista 2? Sure you do. It also got a name change for marketing reasons... to Windows 7.
    I do remember NT 3.51 and NT 4, both can be a real PITA to install, frequent BSOD during install. Before Windows 3, I had Windows 2.11. A saw Vista once, and performance was a dog - did not last long.

    Before Win98SE, there was Win95 (I skipped this one, and OSR2 as well, and Win98. It was Win98 SE that really took off. I have two low importance programs that would not work after Win98 SE, so it lives on VMware.

    I had chronic problems with Windows 7 early on, so I stayed with Win XP (from SP2), util the Windows 7 multicore code was fixed. Some of my engineering programs was fine when running 1 or two cores, more than 2, some programs became sluggish to the point of crashing. At some point, this was fixed, and when this happened, I left XP.

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    Win NT's original name ... was VMS!
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    Quote Originally Posted by n6hcm View Post
    Win NT's original name ... was VMS!
    No.

    When IBM & Micro$oft ended their partnership over OS/2, IBM kept the OS/2 name. That's when Micro$oft OS/2 was rebranded Windows New Technology 3.1, later NT 3.5. The marketing implied that it was an off-shoot of Microsoft Windows 33.1, but of course, it wasn't.

    Now, that said, a later version of NT (NT 4 if memory serves, but it might have been NT 5 aka XP) was an almost complete top-to-bottom rewrite, from the developers who had worked on VMS for Digital. Little of the old M$ OS/2 code remained. That actually started out as a separate, independent project, again if memory serves, which later supplanted the original M$ OS/2 / Windows NT as it's successor.
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    I'll say this:

    If various hypervisors won't support TPM 2.x emulation and/or Win11 won't run with a virtualized TPM, MS just seriously shot themselves in the foot. Further, if a given hypervisor won't support TPM pass-through calls...ditto.

    Should MS' market be more focused towards the embedded end of things, most people won't notice or care. Those institutions which can make use of alternatives, WILL.
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