[NTLUG:Discuss] MS XP Throw it in the trash!

[Mike Hart]

The WORST thing that microsoft has ever put out was
DOS 4.0  It would proceed to corrupt your hard drive
completely when you attempted to intall anything
besides dos onto the computer..  it was on the market
for about 3 weeks. Within 3 months, they issued
several minor upgrades to it (4.0.x, 4.x) before
giving up.  They then continued to ship 3.3x until DOS
5 came out about 18 months later. 

The next worst thing they've put out was Bob.  It was
supposed to replace windows 3 for home users with an
'office assistant' type character that knew you're
needs better than you.  It was available for about a
month before they pulled it.  Who here keeps office
assistant running?  Need I say more?

Number 3 would be the original windows 98 (OEM
version).  This version installs and runs great until
you attempt to make any hardware changes, when it
forgets to remove your old drivers, and you proceed to
corrupt your registration database. Note this is the
original 98, not 98B or 98SE. 

Windows 1.x ranks in there somewhere.  I never got to
see a working copy of it, but the reviews were pretty
bad, and it never seemed to make it to retail shelves
around here. In the days of original windows, just
about all of the competition had better reviews.
Geoworks, OS2, PC-tools, and countless shareware
'menu' programs all provided better user interfaces
than the trumped up dos shell they shipped as windows.
(if you run winfile.exe, that is the nth generation of
original windows.)  The reviews I read said that dos
5.0 with dos shell in graphic mode was a far more
stable and easier to use user interface than windows. 

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