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Poll: Windows 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, or ME ?

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95 and SE are the better ones. 95 OSR2 had almost everything that 98 has, IMHO W98 was just W95 with all patches and some extra bugs added. 95 is very fast and small, I have seen it booting up within 5 seconds on medicore machine. What irritates is that you have to install too many bugfixes and patches on newer computer. Last time I installed W95 into my box, It requied 52 (!) restarts before all drivers/SP's/patches were installed and everything worked. SE isn't IMHO as fast and small as W95 but it takes considerably less time to get it working and it felt better than 98 classic. All Win9x'es seem equally unstable to me but they are still good enough to play some games without any bigger frustration.
 
Like all new OS's ME is just lacking the stability and compatibility we are used to experiencing with 98se. I work as a phone tech at Dell and you don't know how many problems there are right now with ME compatibility (Granted I deal with mostly idiots, but I've seen some wierd things happen on my roomates computer).

Personally I'd go for win2k. Simply the best MS OS out right now.

-Jim
 
Win98SE. Much less bloated with useless software and options that no one would ever use. Although Win2K is probably the best Windows OS out there.
 
Either the first release or SE, both seem about the same to me. ME is too slow and full of unwanted features.
 
Well, since I dual boot between Win98SE and Win2k. My vote will go with Win98SE even though I prefer Win2k it's not listed in the poll.🙂
 
Well it would be Win95...but I use USB stuff and even Win95 OSR2.1 had rather weak USB support.

Win98 1st Edition was very flaky on my system.

Win98SE is very stable and runs everything.

Windows Memory Eater can suck it! WinME is super bloatware...and they did so many pointless things. Like taking out real mode DOS???? WHY??? It doesn't hurt anyone...most people don't even know what real mode DOS is....and so it just annoys the few of us that do use it.


Of that bunch, Win98SE is the no-brainer choice.

However...just this weekend past...I moved from Win98SE to Win2000Pro....it's heveanly my friend. I shall never return. I just wish I formatted my hard drives to NTFS now....
 
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