On 12/7/2019 1:30 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
I wouldn't touch Win 10 with a barge pole.

Windows 10 is great.

Windows 10 is not as bad as Vista or WinME or Win8. This is far from
being good, much less great. Felines really should know better.

Going back to MS-DOS days Microsoft operating systems have gone back
and forth between fairly decent and outright clunkers.

Consider:
MSDOS 2.0 meh, 3.0 ok, 4.0 OMG - one of the worst ever, 5.0
reasonable, 5.1 meh, 5.2 / 5.22 decent, 6.0 meh, 6.2 best of the
MS-DOS line

Windows 1.0, 2.0 - OMG, 3.0 decent, 3.1meh, 3.11 (first to have any
kind of networking meh on the networking components, decent
otherwise),


I agree with some of your assessments of versions, but not all of them;
however the reason for this post is to correct what you say about 3.11.

Windows 3.11 did not have any new network components. It was almost
identical to 3.1; it just incorporated a few new drivers that had
previously been issued separately.

You are undoubtedly thinking of Windows for Workgroups 3.11, which was
very different from Windows 3.11.

You are not the first person to make this error. It was a very common
error; many thousands (millions?) of people made it. It was all
Microsoft's fault; they shouldn't have used the name 3.11 for two such
different things, and they should have made the difference much clearer



4.0 OMG - nearly as bad as DOS 4.0, 95 - probably the best
early one they did, 98 - mostly bug fixes - meh, 7 - good for its
time, 8 OMG, 10 better than it's predecessors which could be good or
bad depending on your opinion.

My own opinion is that 10 and 7 are/were the best of an indifferent
lot.



--
Ken