Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
When they are sitting on a decent OS, Microsoft can’t help themselves but get cocky and let the Corporate “good idea fairies” and comittees shove their inept fingers in the pie and enshitify the crap out of their next OS. They will only back off and let their people produce something actually good immediately after being reminded that they shouldn’t take their customers for granted and that businesspeople shouldn’t be allowed to dictate OS design.
Windows 98 was incredibly unstable and crashed all the time. Windows 98 SE (second edition) was pretty great in comparison but still a little unstable.
Windows 2000 (not on your list) used the NT kernel and was incredibly stable. Windows NT is also not on your list.
When they are sitting on a decent OS, Microsoft can’t help themselves but get cocky and let the Corporate “good idea fairies” and comittees shove their inept fingers in the pie and enshitify the crap out of their next OS. They will only back off and let their people produce something actually good immediately after being reminded that they shouldn’t take their customers for granted and that businesspeople shouldn’t be allowed to dictate OS design.
Windows 98 was incredibly unstable and crashed all the time. Windows 98 SE (second edition) was pretty great in comparison but still a little unstable.
Windows 2000 (not on your list) used the NT kernel and was incredibly stable. Windows NT is also not on your list.
Windows 8.1 was great
2000 was a security mess. Worked well though.
Compared to the security mess that was 9x windows though, it was an improvement
10 was not great after 7, but compared to 11 it is good.