jhae2.718
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Windows 2000 wasn't that bad. Sure, it lacked USB support until SP4, if I remember correctly, but in my experience it was pretty stable for a M$ operating system.
XP was basically 2000 with USB and a new UI, and didn't really become a decent OS until SP2/SP3.
Vista/7 (they're basically the same, Vista is NT 6.0, 7 is NT 6.1) is actually rather decent. Vista wasn't really a finished product when it was released, so it perhaps unfairly got a bad reputation. There's not much different in 7. Unfortunately, IMO the NT 6.* line really messed up a lot of the good features trying to be "user friendly".
Of course, I only boot into Windows now for games or SolidWorks, and do all my work in Unix-like operating systems.
XP was basically 2000 with USB and a new UI, and didn't really become a decent OS until SP2/SP3.
Vista/7 (they're basically the same, Vista is NT 6.0, 7 is NT 6.1) is actually rather decent. Vista wasn't really a finished product when it was released, so it perhaps unfairly got a bad reputation. There's not much different in 7. Unfortunately, IMO the NT 6.* line really messed up a lot of the good features trying to be "user friendly".
Of course, I only boot into Windows now for games or SolidWorks, and do all my work in Unix-like operating systems.