Improvements

View Poll Results: Which OS improved best over its predecesor.

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  • Windows Seven to Vista

    10 50.00%
  • Vista to Xp

    3 15.00%
  • Xp to 2000 (or whatever came before.)

    4 20.00%
  • 2000 to 98, 95 etc

    3 15.00%

  1. Posts : 127
    Windows Seven 64-bit
       #1

    Improvements


    Which Windows made the most improvements to the previous. Just wanted to know...
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  2. Posts : 16
    Winodws 7
       #2

    The thing about OS improvements in your list is that you are missing some in-between OS's that sucked but made the later suck less. Such as 95/98 to 2000 had NT and ME (and they both sucked); XP to Win 7 now has Vista as the dog. After most of the venders updated their software and I got newer hardware that worked on Vista, I liked it. But it will be a trans OS.
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  3. Posts : 127
    Windows Seven 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Im talking about main OS's. Sp's count depending on which version sp ur talking about. If u vote leave a comment about which one u voted for.
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  4. Posts : 16
    Winodws 7
       #4

    Compaker said:
    Im talking about main OS's. Sp's count depending on which version sp ur talking about. If u vote leave a comment about which one u voted for.
    Then it would be 2000. Compared to 95/98, it was (is) a dream. In fact I still use it on my linux machine as a VM since it runs the Win apps I need but has a very small footprint.

    Missing from your list was Win 3.1 to 95. Also a BIG improvement!
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  5. Posts : 4,364
    Windows 11 21H2 Current build
       #5

    In all honesty, I can *never* ever ever say that XP was an improvement - it was too girly, too wide open and basically the stupidest thing that M$ could ever have done - unleashing the NT kernel into the public domain for end users to use who had ***NO FRIGGIN CLUE**** on how to run limited user privilege setups.

    Sure, if we had continued with 95/98 methods then things would have been just as bad - but introducing the NT kernel with Win 2000 Pro and then keeping it in XP ***and not setting up any sort of security*** made XP (and the world) way too vulnerable to malware. The kernel supported limited access rights and lowered privileges - but the default install didn't even *touch* on saying anything about it at all, and left everything wide open just like in Win 9x series.

    Windows 2000 was a good call for users familiar with running in domain settings, but there was limited support for hardware offered with platforms designed for Win 98 (particularly mobile platforms), and that sucked.

    Vista was a great improvement to XP - finally, we had an OS that had security checks built in - after 15 years of none whatsoever OOB - and it pissed too many people off. I love Vista because for the first time my OS had vulnerability checks in place OOB and made *good* use of an NT-based kernel.

    But, W7 blows any of those transitions away - *so far*.

    Don't disappoint, M$ - keep it real. Don't do W7 like you did Longhorn.
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  6. Posts : 154
    Windows 7 Ultimate Beta 7000
       #6

    johngalt said:
    In all honesty, I can *never* ever ever say that XP was an improvement - it was too girly, too wide open and basically the stupidest thing that M$ could ever have done - unleashing the NT kernel into the public domain for end users to use who had ***NO FRIGGIN CLUE**** on how to run limited user privilege setups.

    Sure, if we had continued with 95/98 methods then things would have been just as bad - but introducing the NT kernel with Win 2000 Pro and then keeping it in XP ***and not setting up any sort of security*** made XP (and the world) way too vulnerable to malware. The kernel supported limited access rights and lowered privileges - but the default install didn't even *touch* on saying anything about it at all, and left everything wide open just like in Win 9x series.

    Windows 2000 was a good call for users familiar with running in domain settings, but there was limited support for hardware offered with platforms designed for Win 98 (particularly mobile platforms), and that sucked.

    Vista was a great improvement to XP - finally, we had an OS that had security checks built in - after 15 years of none whatsoever OOB - and it pissed too many people off. I love Vista because for the first time my OS had vulnerability checks in place OOB and made *good* use of an NT-based kernel.

    But, W7 blows any of those transitions away - *so far*.

    Don't disappoint, M$ - keep it real. Don't do W7 like you did Longhorn.
    I was going to say that the "Vista to XP" option should not even be on there but I see we have someone who can appreciate that choice on the ballot
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  7. Posts : 4,282
    Windows 7 Ultimate Vista Ultimate x64
       #7

    I chose Vista to XP as most of the major changes were made in that transition and Seven is just an improvement of Vista and I still like Vista and use it without issues.

    Note: Pole is still is on 1 for my choice, has it been rigged?
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