• saltesc@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 months ago

      Fuck you. Bringing up ME and making me relive the memories. Even as a kid, I couldn’t stand it wanted 98 back.

      ME and Vista are by far the worst to date.

        • morhp@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          I switched mostly to Linux when windows 8 was released, but I don’t mind 11. It looks quite nice, the start menu is pretty good and normal again compared to the ugly full screen shitshow from windows 8 and the weird hybrid thing from windows 10 and most of that foreign mobile metro crap from windows 8 is gone again or reintegrated into the desktop.

          Having tabs in the explorer is also super nice.

      • EtherWhack@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 months ago

        I personally never had any issues with Vista. Even deferred win7 for 4-5 years until I got curious. Though I did have a system made for it, so that was part of it.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          7 months ago

          Vista was a nightmare unless you had OEM equipment that wasn’t just vista compatible, but MADE FOR VISTA. Your experience was an aberration, most people got ‘vista compatible’ PCs that were running vista but made with XP sp1 in mind. So you’d see these systems that had no hardware graphics acceleration beyond onboard anemic garbage trying to run menus with DOF blur and soft overlays just gagging, and god forbid you had to troubleshoot/support some software on some shit like this, it was a nightmare.

          The rest of the people upgraded from XP to Vista themselves, and the smart ones went “OH FUCK NO” and went back in droves.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 months ago

      I don’t know if they reclassified it at some point, but back on those days 3.5 was titled “Windows for Workgroups” and 4.0 was the first to be known simply as “NT”.

      Forget what I said, I recalled an old memory from childhood of a 3.5 upgrade box for people running Windows for Workgroups.

      NT 4.0 is definitely what popularized that version prior to Windows 2000 and XP. Most people who just say “Windows NT” are thinking about 4.0.

      • BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        7 months ago

        3.11 was WfW, and ran on top of DOS just like 3.1 did.

        NT 3.51 used the NT kernel, and (mostly) looked like 3.1/3.11 on the surface. NT 4 used the NT kernel, and (mostly) looked like Win95.

        Win 95/98/Me also ran on DOS, though it was more tightly integrated than it was in the 3.1 days.

        Win 2k and everything after was based on NT.

    • brianorca@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 months ago

      Replace NT in this list with ME and you have all the consumer versions. NT versions 3.5 and 4 were the business versions in parallel with 95, 98, and ME.

  • kshade@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 months ago

    I wonder if they will call the next versions 12 and especially 13. Alternative names:

    • Windows AI (because all those new features are so transformative)
    • Windows Azure Blue, Red and Yellow (Home and Pro, neither allowing local accounts, also Enterprise where non-hybrid AD still kinda works)
    • Windows Edge 20XX (everything has to use cloud computing terms!)
    • Windows. Just Windows. (four years later: Windows 2 announced!)
  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    7 months ago

    NT 3.1 came out before 95, and isn’t a single version (Windows 11 is still Windows NT). If you include NT as a version, you can’t include 2000, XP, or anything after.

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
    31·
    7 months ago

    For anyone really curious about this, 1, 2, 3, 95 and 98 are using the old MS-DOS Kernel. Windows 3 was the first product also released with an alternative new NT Kernel and available as Windows 3 NT.

    So then when they continued with this NT Kernel they continued to count the version number like that (at least retrospectively when creating Windows 7).