![]() ![]() 10: seemed like a perfectly reasonable reversion to evolving 7, but also seemed like it got weirder and worse as they dug into no new versions. And I’d been very taken by earlier Metro. I’m sure it was as bad in practice as everyone who used it thinks, but I really appreciated the bold attempt at a UI for any device. 8: I’m one of the weirdos who found it very compelling… but not enough to actually use it. 7: good enough, mostly didn’t suck for web compatibility testing ![]() Vista: didn’t use it, but I think it got a bad rep for efforts that should’ve been lauded XP: fine, if you turn off all the UI changes, but not appealing over 2k in any way I can recall I had access to Macs from an early age (since System 7 and through all the processor architecture transitions, except I haven’t gotten an M-series yet), but sold my Mac and couldn’t afford a replacement for some time around the XP transition. Win2K was the only version of Windows I ever ran as a daily driver. But I did wasn’t to share a counterpoint to the praise of Windows 7. I get this is going to be my subjective opinion, just like Windows 7 is yours. Whereas every version of Windows since has done far too much GUI overhaul (and always to the detriment of UX in my personal opinion) while doing very little to improve my core complaints with the OS. Often little changes like adding short cut keys to Notepad.exe. Windows 2000 took NT4 and focused on bettering the stuff that didn’t work rather than breaking the stuff that did. Yet Windows 2000 arrived and it felt genuinely like a next generation OS for its time. Amiga was basically only ram by enthusiasts. Apple were struggling too: MacOS 9 was less stable than Windows 9x (and that’s saying something!) and OS X took a couple of releases to really take off. BeOS was awesome but you could tell it was a dying company. Linux was getting close but still had a lot of rough edges. And thus XP drive me to run Linux as my primary OS.īut back when 2000 was around, most other OSs were terrible. XP did mature into something that was decent, but the initial release of XP was just an uglier and more system hungry version of 2000. And I’m including Microsoft Basic in that scope as well. Personally Windows 2000 was the only Microsoft operating system I’ve ever liked. ![]()
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