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I'm old enough to remember criticisms being raised during every Windows release.

This happened during Windows XP days (and I think one which still continues!), Windows 7 and Windows 8.

I don't expect things to be any different this time around!

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There have been good versions of Windows. NT 3.51. Windows 2000. Windows 7. Everything else was a step backwards from the previous version.

Windows 95 was no great shakes, but it was way better than Windows For Workgroups 3.11, which is where I jumped off for OS/2 and then Slackware.

> Everything else was a step backwards from the previous version.

You're claiming that XP was worse than ME?

ME was not the version that preceded XP, it was Windows 2000. There were two completely different product lines, with a different kernel, etc.

Windows 3.x -> Windows 95 -> Windows 98 -> Windows ME

Windows NT 3.x -> Windows NT 4.0 -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Windows Vista -> Windows 7 -> Windows 8 -> Windows 10

Many people believe that XP was the successor of ME because this is where non-business users were migrated to the NT line of Windows.

Vista was huge improvement (or say Win7 basics was made here), but just too heavy in 2006.

At the time, people would endlessly complain about every new version or even small change, too. I don't remember the complaining to be worse for the (in hindsight) worse versions. Plus it's only the complaints that you hear about, very few people will rave about how great something is. Personally I thought that Windows 7 was a majors step backwards from XP and avoided it, skipping straight to 8, which I thought was great.

What did you find great about Windows 8 that you felt was lacking in Windows 7?

But were they trying to hide comments like in this case?

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