bash Windows 8

[Iggy]

Every version of Windows I've tried since XP has been a disappointment.
That being said, I purchased but never installed Win7.
I just haven't found the need for it.

Then again, I spend more time using MorphOS than Windows anyway.

[Iggy]

Every version of Windows since XP and before Windows 7... hmmm... I wonder what that could have been....

Well, I guess that was a pretty pointless point.
But no matter how bad Win8 might be, it can't top Vista.

Most crash prone POS I've ever used.

[Iggy]

Windows 98?

I still use a boot CD of Win98SE to flash video cards.

[Iggy]

I can't say I experienced the same.

I have two machines that are on Vista Business SP 2( they came with SP 1), and other than the boot time taking abut 20 seconds longer than Win 7, they're virtually identical performance and stability wise as my Win 7 laptop.

Pre SP1, Vista was unfinished, 3rd party drivers were lacking (especially video and sound) and there were some file copy issues.  The other problems was the aggressive indexing, and the on by default  defrag.

Hardware wise old machines lacked enough RAM.  New machines had a lot of crapware- when first turned on Vista tried to index all of the files, thrashing the drive and killing performance.

There are guides out there that let you tweak Vista and drastically improve performance.

I'll be using the Vista machines till I can't get MS updates and Vista is EOL.

 No reason not to.

Except for experimenting with DX10 video cards, I could find no utility in it.
Slow, bloated, buggy.

[Iggy]

8.1 Update 1 will return a lot of the missing desktop features we're still left having to patch with third party apps at the moment.

Due about the same time XP support expires, first week of April or so.

Great, maybe they can stop sending me those updates.
Hey, stopping support around April 1st?
Are they sure they are finally doing this?

[Iggy]

Yeah, support for XP ends on April 8th.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows/end-support-help

Didn't affect my continued need to use Win98SE, probably not that earth shaking an event for my XP instillation.