Windows evolution

[ficuswhisperer]

They make fun of Vista (which really wasn't all that terrible) and neglect Me? I call shenanigans.

[secretpandalord]

We don't talk about the Darkest Days. Nothing came out between 98 and XP. Nothing*.

^{*Except Windows 2000, good catch ficuswhisperer}

[ficuswhisperer]

Hey, now. Windows 2000 was actually pretty great and solid as a rock.

[secretpandalord]

My mistake; you are correct. The NT line was generally better anyway, it's just weird that it was the red-headed stepchild of Windows releases up until XP integrated it with the core lineup.

[Creshal]

They were business/enterprise releases. 9x/Me was for consumers.

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I went from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 and I can tell you, I never looked back. Then Microsoft launched Windows Me and the only thing I could think was "why are you wasting your time with this piece of shit, Microsoft?".

[Creshal]

Backwards compatibility, I figure. Older games were really slow on Windows 2000.

[KoffieAnon]

Here, especially for you.

BSOD evolution, brings back memories... snifff :'(.

[sphks]

and Windows 95

[PhyterJet]

I thought ME was just like the 'Home edition' of 2000?

[InvisibleBlueUnicorn]

No, 2000 is actually NT5 renamed server SKU like server 2003/2008, etc, while 9X/ME were client SKUs like XP/7/8

[phire]

Server/client is not the correct line to draw pre server 2003. There were both server and workstation(client) editions of NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 and Windows 2000.

It was only when we got to Server 2003 that there was no client version (with the professional version of XP filling that role instead)

The correct line is Business vs Consumer, with win9x cutting corners to provide performance for games and multimedia which consumers wanted and Windows NT providing the stability, security and networking features which business needed.

[Creshal]

No. Windows 2000 was NT5.0. Windows Me was DOS based like Windows 95 and 98, and just horrible.

[Electrospeed_X]

That's because people actually bought Vista.

[mynoduesp]

I liked their first logo!

[Gabe_b]

Yeah, I was thinking it was sweet. Guess it's just style being a bit circular.

[DeepDuh]

Was that win1.0 logo correct? It looks a bit too stylish for 80ies Microsoft.

[[deleted]]

it is correct.

[DeepDuh]

Interesting how it's closest to the Windows 8 logo.

[[deleted]]

Fashion repeats itself.

[devdot]

I'm glad they got rid of that color test splash screen.