Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system Nickname: Password: Nickname: Password: The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. And got worse through the years. Damn you beat me to it. Came here to say that I supposed it depends on your definition of "worse."Windows 3.0 had terrible performance. I mean, so bad that you couldn't use it at all to do things like delete a bunch of files. It would delete a file, refresh the whole screen, and then delete the next file.Windows 3.1 still was limited to 8-character file names.Windows 95 crashed all the time, as in BSODs. I mean, all the time.Windows 98 was so leaky that you had to reboot it daily or it would run out of memory, even if you didn't do anything. These days, Blue screens in Win95 was normally caused by users not paying attention to the Hardware Compatibility List. Memory management wasn't bad, certainly better than the earlier versions of DOS, and there was a lot less manual hardware configuration necessary. So sounds like you agree that OS wasn't necessarily better than more modern versions of Windows. Sorry, but a BSOD is not a reasonable expectation of consequences when someone "doesn't pay attention to the compatibility list." If you plug something incompatible into the system, it's reasonable that it wouldn't work, but not reasonable that it should take the whole OS down with it. There was no active memory management in the PC world at that time, only in midrange or larger systems. I did phone support for Win95 when it was new, probably 2/3 of our calls were from people with incompatible hardware. Sure, Linux can do that too. The point the OP made was that Windows keeps getting worse. My point was that it's not necessarily so, and one way it has gotten better, is that it's more stable. I wasn't comparing it to Linux. Also true. But good luck trying to get random printers or scanners or other devices to work on Linux. If you go off the beaten path, as in, less than popular devices, Linux just can't help you. So every OS has its strengths and weaknesses. There have been excellent version of Windows, but now we've hit a point that hardware is no longer outrunning software and Microsoft can no longer hide their flaws by just throwing new CPU's at them. The bloat is now overtaking X86's ability to mask inefficient programming. Was????? Why the past tense? Why you're down as "0, Troll", I'm not sure. You state an opinion held by a good number of people. What I'll add to corroborate your post is the amount of waiting I've done over the years. I'm sure someone can do the maths, but I must have waited for a year of my life just for Windows to reboot (I worked in Tech Support, so you'd end up doing a lot of rebooting, or waiting on the phone while someone did it for you). Even as a user though, I've waited countless hours just for Windows to boot up, because you u I'm probably one of the very few who's been in the microcomputer industry since its inception way back in the 1970s.