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When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good?
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I'd say Windows 8.1 was the last "good" one (as in B tier good), and Windows 7 was the last great one. Everything went downhill from here.
And yes, I'm considering Vista as part of the good ones.
Truth be told, Vista wasn't bad, it needed a bit of polish here and there but most importantly, you needed a good PC to run it smoothly.
And it was riddled with issues due to lack of 64bit driver support. You could have released 7 instead of vista and ended up with some of the same issues.
I've long thought it was fine and subjected to misplaced ridicule.
Windows ME, however....
Win98 was so bad they released Win98SE.
And I was one of the very few who were lucky enough to have one.
And it lasted me like, 11 years.
It had the annoying habit of asking "Are you sure you want to run this?" too often; and early cheaper consumer-grade PCs that were really just moderately nice XP machines that could on paper even boot and run Vista that in reality were slow and had poor driver support. I had a Vista machine that was fairly powerful for the day and had decent driver support, like Gateway put some give a shit into it, and it was pretty okay.