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Well, I really like some aspects of the Windows OS, but as an embedded systems developer and systems programmer I’ve always found WindowsCE and the Embedded versions of XP and later to be somewhat disappointing, and indeed with the demise of Technet and MSDN its more of a bother to access, for example, debug builds, at least, debug builds that can be activated.
Also I haven’t really loved a Windows OS since Windows 7, with its beautiful Aero Glass aesthetic, although more recent builds of Windows 10 looked decent and were reminscent of the simple aesthetics of Win9x, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.
By the way, a lot of younger people are unaware of the fact that while Windows 3.x was a 16 bit cooperative multitasking OS, like classic MacOS through MacOS 9 (actually I think the first MacOS release was not even really multitasking, but rather only ran the process in the active window, with everything tied through the main event loop), which was highly dependent on MS-DOS for driver support and I/O, Windows9x used DOS mainly as a bootloader (and if I recall, DOS device drivers could be used as a last resort, with adverse performance implications), but was a 32 bit OS with mutltasking. However, these were single user OSes with no internal security, unlike Windows NT, which was designed from the start as a multiuser operating system with some security considerations, and later on, security was greatly enhanced, being the sole focus of WindowsXP SP2, and also the reason why Windows Vista’s release was so heavily delayed.
Windows Vista did have some issues, also, but it was not as buggy as WindowsME, and even WindowsME was not as bad as people make it out to be, but it was definitely buggy compared to Windows 98, which was much loved by gamers. And Windows 95 deserves a lot of credit for upgrading the Windows GUI to be more competitive with that of the Mac, indeed, I would argue that Windows 95 was superior to the classic Mac GUI paradigm (but the addition of the Dock in Mac OS X provided an application launching environment comparable to the Start Menu, although I still prefer the Windows GUI metaphor, which happily has been ported to Linux and is the basis for KDE, MATE and Cinammon, and used to be the basis for GNOME before the unpleasant changes with release 3.0. I am not a huge fan of GNOME 3 or the short lived Ubuntu desktop environment, or XFCE for that matter (since there are other, more light weight window managers which can be used on minimal hardware).
Also I haven’t really loved a Windows OS since Windows 7, with its beautiful Aero Glass aesthetic, although more recent builds of Windows 10 looked decent and were reminscent of the simple aesthetics of Win9x, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.
By the way, a lot of younger people are unaware of the fact that while Windows 3.x was a 16 bit cooperative multitasking OS, like classic MacOS through MacOS 9 (actually I think the first MacOS release was not even really multitasking, but rather only ran the process in the active window, with everything tied through the main event loop), which was highly dependent on MS-DOS for driver support and I/O, Windows9x used DOS mainly as a bootloader (and if I recall, DOS device drivers could be used as a last resort, with adverse performance implications), but was a 32 bit OS with mutltasking. However, these were single user OSes with no internal security, unlike Windows NT, which was designed from the start as a multiuser operating system with some security considerations, and later on, security was greatly enhanced, being the sole focus of WindowsXP SP2, and also the reason why Windows Vista’s release was so heavily delayed.
Windows Vista did have some issues, also, but it was not as buggy as WindowsME, and even WindowsME was not as bad as people make it out to be, but it was definitely buggy compared to Windows 98, which was much loved by gamers. And Windows 95 deserves a lot of credit for upgrading the Windows GUI to be more competitive with that of the Mac, indeed, I would argue that Windows 95 was superior to the classic Mac GUI paradigm (but the addition of the Dock in Mac OS X provided an application launching environment comparable to the Start Menu, although I still prefer the Windows GUI metaphor, which happily has been ported to Linux and is the basis for KDE, MATE and Cinammon, and used to be the basis for GNOME before the unpleasant changes with release 3.0. I am not a huge fan of GNOME 3 or the short lived Ubuntu desktop environment, or XFCE for that matter (since there are other, more light weight window managers which can be used on minimal hardware).
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