Windows 7 Release Date Announced

Hey Mayhem.

Nice long list of ms history there.

Will add my feelings to it as well :)

Dos 3.1 = My starting point and a file manager called XTREE, learnt at an early age age how to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to get enough base ram free to run leisure suit larry and such ha ha, hey i was 12 :p

Windows 3 = Only used for calc lol

Windows 3.1 = Okay

Windows 3.2 = Okay

Windows 95 = Worked with command and conquer :)

windows 98 = Massive improvement on 95 games ran within the os

windows 98 SE = Leaps and bounds over 98

Windows NT = Work wise ace not exactly a gamers dream though

Windows 2000 = Work wise ace again not exactly a gamers dream

Windows Millennium = i must be the only person who loved this quick booting fast web access os, was a dream for a gamer. Yep it crashed (read alot) but it was nippy

Windows Xp = Massive improvement on previous oses. Set the bar which ms has yet to beat since.

Windows Vista = I dont think its a bad os, sp1 improved it alot. sp2 has made it even better. Its just the fact no one in the industry wanted to move on from a proven os.

Windows 7 = Have been playing with the beta and various other releases at work, large dev. team when i am based. Im very impressed. From using rc myself at home its a nice improvement on vista. More importantly to me as a gamer it has run everything i have thrown at it so far.
 
Windows ME was fail and a half. It was appalling, had no security and physically broke two of my hard-drives. How an OS can manage that is beyond me. WinME was beyond a joke.
 
My uncle used to have ME

Pretty much all problems were fixed when i put XP on there

It used to basically fail to boot at random, cause literally constant HDD activity (prolly broke the hdd too) and took an age to properly startup and viruses used to come preinstalled (seemed that way)
 
Don't think I ever installed ME without it giving some kind of complaint.

Be interesting as enthusiasts to log gaming performance as the windows history went along. Particularly Dx9, being as not all games coming out still aren't using Dx10 - still.
 
I must be the only one like i said lol.

It did crash, that i canna deny, but web access in it and for playing games it was lightning quick. It was also very fast to install!! (due to it having nothing built in ha ha)
 
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