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I kind of noticed this as an unwritten rule, instead of a joke. Every other release of windows seems to have its fair share of weirdness which is corrected with the release immediately superseding it.

My path, which I'm sure matches a great deal of others is:

3.1 = buy 95 = skip 98 = buy ME = skip XP = buy Vista = skip 7 = buy

Extrapoloating, 8 will be a "skip". I hope this will be the exception.. I kind of like what I've seen with 8 so far.

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It's a nitpick, but you left out WIN2k, which would break your pattern...

It was actually a very solid OS from my experience.

So I've heard- but my thoughts at the time (as a mostly ignorant kid) were than Win2k was too business focused for gaming. Keep in mind, I didn't even have internet access until 1999!

Went straight from 98 to XP, buying ME and then taking it back after finding out that it broke EVERYTHING.

To be honest, MS did indeed intend to target Win2000 at businesses and WinMe at home users, though Win2000 actually have good DirectX support unlike NT4.

Well, he has also skipped NT 3.1, 3.5 and 4. The various versions branded as NT, plus Win2k, were generally considered non-consumer, though Win2k was a marginal case.

Off topic, but did you wait 8 years upgrading from ME to Vista?

His timeline was really confusing. HN probably stripped out the newlines he used.

  3.1 = buy  
  95 = skip  
  98 = buy  
  ME = skip  
  XP = buy  
  Vista = skip  
  7 = buy

He skipped ME.

The "every other version" rule left him on 3.1 while the rest of the world was on 95, though. Seems like a pretty broken rule...

Yeah, it ate the newlines and I kind of posted in a hurry... oopsy.

Thing was I didn't have a computer capable of running Win95 at the time, and even then convincing my parents to drop $100 on that plus the requisite hardware upgrade was pretty tricky.

Then this and that happened, we got the new computer with 95, and then upgraded it to 98. Ah, those were the days :)

No, I went to XP.

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