Worst Windows Versions

Do I honestly have to say what a fail this operating system is? It's not mouse friendly at all! Can't support many apps and is an unfinished mess. Sure They added the start screen in 8.1 but the main problem is still there. Get your act together Microsoft! Lean from your mistakes and impress me with windows 9.

Questionable design choices (for starters, the Start Menu got replaced with some crappy tile menu that took up the whole screen) and fairly unstable.

Windows 8.1 is actually good, but 2000, XP, 7 and 10 are all better.

Windows 8 looks like its made on MSPAINT! The things that are nice, are nice because they are recycled from Windows Vista. The start menu is absolutely abomination and is completely unusable! Though it is better than Windows 10!

They've messed up the start button, and it was a big misdirection for making the home menu feel more like a tablet.

People who say windows 8 is the worst have seriously no idea how bad ME was. I've used pretty much every version of windows since ME. ME was by far the worst. 8 was clunky and confusing, but it ran pretty well and included many modern features. Vista also revamped the operating system and added key features, although the hardware did experience problems. I personally haven't experienced problems, and that was more a driver manufacturer issue. ME was total crap. It was an unnecessary update that was unstable and caused problems. The new features were buggy and not yet ready to be released. It was just a total last-minute dash that resulted in a hot mess. It was supposed to be the best of both worlds but ended being the worst of all. Perhaps its sole saving grace was the beautiful startup and shutdown sounds.

By and large, the worst version of Windows. Extremely unstable (the Blue Screen of Death became a meme thanks to ME), horrid security and it was literally just the hollowed-out remains of the DOS kernel (DOS was still there, but you needed hacks to access it)

The thing it has going for it is that it's beautiful. Otherwise, it's a mass of wasted potential. Vista would've been good if it wasn't bundled with so many underpowered computers.

This was an OS that took up more memory than most computers at the time could handle. Basically, it was a rushed stopgap between Windows XP and Windows 7 (both of which are far superior to Vista).

From what I've heard, Vista was very buggy, very slow, and most people who tried to upgrade from XP to Vista had several problems with it.

The requirements for Vista were kind of high then, and it was ahead of its time. It had a lot of compatibility issues.

More like win blows 95 it was revolutionizing but it was slow and 16 bit

It isn't that bad. While of course, it isn't the best Windows version, it's far superior to the original Windows 8.

We're not talking about dos here.

It brings back memories of my childhood! My reception classmates would rush to get to the computer running Windows XP!

Hey! This is good!

Just one look of Windows 11 on my grandma's computer and it was the worst OS I ever used. (I used iOS 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, ChromeOS, macOS Catalina and Big Sur (My MacBook Air supports Monterey but the software update section keeps loading), and Windows 10.) Windows 10 is a lot better.

Windows 11 should be renamed to Windows Vista 2.0 because that's how crappy it is. Even after Windows 10 ends support when I'm 19 in 2025, I'm still keeping it on my computer unless something better is created. Windows 11 looks ugly, has a terrible UI, and is generally not worth the upgrade. Windows 11 is proof that every other version of Windows in bad.

The next worst after Windows 10.

Oh, that Chinese version.

It's actually good, aside from the fact that they force you to give a reason to shut down.