The WORST Version of Windows

We all know the best was Windows XP

Chapter Titles
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0:00 Hello and Welcome
0:22 Windows 2000
1:48 Windows ME
2:47 Windows Phone
4:02 Windows Vista
5:25 Windows ’95
6:08 Windows 10
7:06 Windows NT
7:42 Windows 7
8:48 Windows Mobile
9:15 Windows 8
10:00 Windows 365
11:02 Windows 1.0
11:45 Windows 11
13:00 Windows ’98
14:15 Windows CE
14:58 Final Tier List

[windowsexpert]

Listen, Windows 7 is S tier! Hands down! “I’ve never used windows 7 before” I can guarantee you’ve used it and didn’t even notice (ATMs, SelfCheckouts, etc…) fantastic OS!

[quantumleaper]

I disagree a lot with the grade your giving Window 2000, in the years of using Win2K, it NEVER crashed, other than when I had a program I had to write for a class I was taking. The program would have crashed ANY NT-based Windows but the Teacher and other students were using Win95 or Win98 with had no problem with the program we had to write. I liked Window 2000 better than Win95, 98, or Me and even older versions of NT before 2K. I have used every Windows version since Win 3.11...

[gemmychris]

You forgot to include Windows RT. An ARM based version of Windows 8 that couldn’t run any exe files and can only run apps from the Microsoft store.

[mattotto]

Even though I loved XP and grew up with it, I recognised the generational leap to Windows 7. Windows 7 did alot of things right, so right in fact most of its submenus can still be found in Windows 10/11 (sound panel). Granted, I can't remember if XP was the same way, but this became more and more nested with the newer iterations, and that's why it really irks me that Windows moved to W11.

[kitnoman]

I think the only reason why windows 8 came is due to microsoft''s desired to compete with handhelds/touch screens and made a wrong decision to bake tablet/phone/computer into one base OS. I mean even Apple who's known to favor simplicity and easier usage for consumer separated the OS of their iphones and mac.

The OS I've used are 98, XP, ME(at school), 7 and currently 10. XP and 7 are definitely tied as highest tier for me.

[WJCuffe]

Don't forget, Microsoft was saying Windows 10 was to be the last version of the OS. That's another part of the reason for the backlash to Windows 11. 11's release was such an about face for what Microsoft had be saying for the previous six years it's no wonder users are embittered.

The worst thing about the start screen on Windows 8, was that it was also included in Windows Server 2012.

[sarah]

Y'all missing Windows 2 and windows 3. I first was introduced to windows during windows 3.1. Then we killed that computer trying to upgrade to windows 95 then got it partially working with windows 98. Though my father accidentally killed the CD drive trying to retrieve the information so we can get a driver for it.

[BayareaXotics]

I’m using Windows 11 on my laptop. I briefly remember using Vista and XP when I was younger. Never really looked into it but now I remember! Windows 7 is what I really used so i loved it.

[ewangudgeon]

A little sad not to hear a Dreamcast shout out when talking about CE, even if was wasn't well supported by devs still one of the cooler things that used CE imo.

[KTHR]

Vista in my experience was like this:
Vista on old/outdated/slow hardware, especially slow HDD's: F tier.
Vista on a high spec machine for the time with fast storage: A tier, encroaching on S tier after SP1.

After having participated in the Windows "Longhorn" beta, I was fully onboard with Vista and bought it immediately when it was released. I installed it on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 8GB of RAM, nVidia 8800 GTX, SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum, and 2x74GB WD Raptors in RAID 0, which was god-tier hardware at the time. It did have a few teething issues in the first few months where an occasional BSOD was not out of the question mainly due video drivers and the desktop UI requiring GPU acceleration, but it became flawless for me after a few updates. Once SP1 rolled around I was just in love with the OS. With the right hardware, despite it admittedly being bloated, it was still extremely fast (I/O performance was exponentially better than Windows XP) and it was just gorgeous to look at.

With fast enough hardware, Vista could get you the Windows 7 experience before Windows 7 existed. I'll always be fond of Vista and will defend it (to some extent) as a very decent OS despite it being an absolute pig on low spec machines. Vista's poor performance reputation was mainly due to people installing it on slow HDD's, fast storage is completely transformative for performance with Vista. I'd also encourage anyone who has bad memories of Vista to try installing it on an older machine with an SSD, you may have your mind changed about Vista being slow.

Windows XP and 7 are untouchable. Hands down the two best versions of windows ever.

[Jackikins]

For me, Windows 11 is fucking amazing. The "Multiple Desktop" thing is so damn good. It added something that I ACTUALLY use. Running a Minecraft server and having it minimized is irritating. Having a seperate desktop enviroment that I can switch to, open it, start it up and then just leave it there.

Godly. If they added that back to Win10, that's pretty cool, but my dumb ass adopted Windows 11 esentially day 1, even knowing all of the issues it had. Maybe I'm lucky as hell, but the only issue I ever had with Windows 11 was changing the default browser.

[vihaanparikh]

Austin and Matt really showing off how old they are rn ngl

[TimothyCollins]

Personally I still miss my windows phone. I could see at a glance of the home screen the statuses of all my apps, it was fast and responsive and I loved Cortana as the assistant. There were things in that I still have yet to get on Android or iOS.

[YouGotPropofol]

With each version of windows, Microsoft scraps the core apps and gives you a “new version” which inevitably as half the features of the old version. Over time they slowly update this new app but then suddenly stop. So you’re left with incomplete apps. To this day they still do that. Mail and calendar on windows 10/11 are essentially base level jank apps with 1/4 of the features of the mail and calendar suits of windows in the past. Same goes for movie maker which today is “video editor” with less features than movie maker. Then there is groove which is essentially an abandoned music player. Etc etc etc. you get the idea. Meanwhile, apple just keeps BUILDING INTO their existing apps and making them better each year. I don’t know why Microsoft keeps trying to reinvent everything, instead of just making what they have better. Wait, there is one Microsoft software which has been built into over decades, but now it’s a bloated janky mess: MS Office. Instead of cleaning up menus and removing old interfaces they just throw new ones next to it. Ok, I goes no matter what Microsoft does, it’s crap. Why? It’s run by morons.

[MinecrafterPictures]

My rank of all mainstream Windows versions is like this (lower=worse, unreleased versions included, variants of various versions (Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows XP SP1, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Premium, etc.) merged per version):

Windows XP (because of the cool-looking Windows Media Center Edition variants)
Windows 7 (my personal NT version overall)
Windows 10
Windows 3.1
Windows 2000
Windows 8.1
Windows 98 (my personal favorite 9x family version)
Windows 95
Windows 8
Windows 3.0
Windows 2
Windows 1
Windows NT 4.x
Windows Vista
Windows ME
Windows NT 3.x (OG Windows NT)
Windows Neptune
Windows Odyssey
Windows Cairo

[williamsmith]

As someone who was an IT technician during the entire lifespan of it - XP Was B tier, AT BEST. I still have nightmares about the Fischer Price interface. UGH!

[SIPEROTH]

As an old user i think Windows 3.1 were quite the big thing. It was basically the first step to Windows 95. Sure Windows 3.0 first introduced colours etc but they were too buggy and unstable with little memory support.

Windows 3.1-Windows 3.11 is were the whole coloured graphical interface became really usable.
I used Windows 3.1 and i remember you could even use a mouse as well it was the first look to Windows as we know.

[jayster.]

I’m one of the 4% of Windows users who use Windows 7, one of the 80% who use 10, and my parents are one of the 1% who use 11. Also, I use Windows XP on my Virtual Machine I run on the same device as my Windows 7.