To be fair, it had its moments. Windows 95 was a pretty big step forwards and the alternative was OS/2 Warp, which has some nice features but was from IBM, who were still dreaming of replacing the PC with a vertically-integrated home computer again.
Windows 2000 (or XP starting with SP2) was also solid. 7 was alright. None of those had too much bullshit bundled with them.
Everything since Windows 8 has been some flavor of shitty, though.
As a vehement Microsoft hater, Windows 2000 is really the only one I considered great. Windows XP meant dumping the 9x garbage into NT and spelled the beginning of the end for the actually good NT variant of Windows.
To be fair, it had its moments. Windows 95 was a pretty big step forwards and the alternative was OS/2 Warp, which has some nice features but was from IBM, who were still dreaming of replacing the PC with a vertically-integrated home computer again.
Windows 2000 (or XP starting with SP2) was also solid. 7 was alright. None of those had too much bullshit bundled with them.
Everything since Windows 8 has been some flavor of shitty, though.
As a vehement Microsoft hater, Windows 2000 is really the only one I considered great. Windows XP meant dumping the 9x garbage into NT and spelled the beginning of the end for the actually good NT variant of Windows.