On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
>> > Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a
>> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won
>> $5.
>>
>> I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it
>> I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
>> I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it
>> I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it
>> I was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it
>> I was using Win7 - and was happy with it
>>
>> And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user since
>> 1.something (but up until now just on the servers).
>>
>> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation (Gentoo)
>> and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago.
>>
>> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults.
>
>   I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've been even
> more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly tried to ram ActiveX
> down people's throats.  Remove ActiveX, and 99% of "drive-by-downloads"
> would've disappeared.  WinME was a sad joke, however.

I enjoyed MS Dos, then played a bit with MS Win3.11, MS Win95 and MS Win98SE.
However, for important stuff, like day-to-day desktop, I switched to Linux
in 1997. That was the last time I lost files due to a crash of MS
Windows...

--
Joost


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