That is correct, I never used ME and Vista at home so I didn’t think to add them.
And as other’s have noted, the opinion on Vista is divided.
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Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours agoI can’t help but notice your skipped two very terrible versions in that list:
ME
Vista shudders
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
lime@feddit.nu 4 hours ago
vista was also a good system. the market just tried to push it on people with hardware which was not up to the task. when 7 released, compatible hardware was already in place.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Not just hardware, drivers. Driver support was abysmal. On a decent hdd with updated drivers vista was fine.
lime@feddit.nu 2 hours ago
yeah because driver were previously allowed to do whatever the hell they wanted with the system and vista introduced a baselevel of security.
the rollout was a mess, the os really wasn’t. which is a surprise considering the development story.
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I’ll also put Vista’s bad reputation down to that it was the first version with UAC, which if I recall was set too sensitive, combined with the fact that it was something new and weird for most Windows users at the time and the fact that a lot of software didn’t have time to catch up to add proper compability with the system.
lime@feddit.nu 2 hours ago
it’s not that it was too sensitive, it was that windows was previously a lawless land where every application had full access to the entire system. you’re bound to get some compatibility issues from that.