The worst OS ever

Wow... I guess Microsoft take's a pretty hefty vote eh?

The worst OS I have ever worked with is Windows 1.0. Of course, this was the first version of Windows ever devised, but when you look at the menus, the over-hyped "overlapping windows" and clunky mouse support, it makes you truly amazed that up to WinME, was built on the "ride on top of DOS" idea. A few moments of fricking around with Win 1.0, you really had no choice but to go back to trusty ol' DOS. In fact, I'll have to give you guys some links to Microsoft nostalgia...

1) Some Windows history: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa080499a.htm
2) Windows 1.0 box shot: http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/win1fb.jpg
3) Article where box shot comes from:http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm
4) Some screenshots of Win 1.0: http://internet.ls-la.net/ms-evolution/windows-1.01/

And I have to agree that MS did partially get it right with the NT series, but still has a long way to go...

I personally never had trouble with Windows ME, I got possibly two BSOD in a few months, I feel blessed, and am :). Worst OS: I hate Mac OS 9 like someone stated. I'm a tech helper at my school and I constantly run into freezes installing new software or just browsing the web. Netscape 3.x it just awful for it (with the experience I've run into).

for me win98 was the worse....crashed a few times a day

but now I have xp home (had it for about 7 months) I have had no trouble with it at all. It probley only crashed a few times total. I use it alot too.

my vote is tied

BOB and Windows ME have to be the worst ever!

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ok, let me give youmy 2 cents. the worst in my opinion is windows 3.1 now that os is really sad, i remeber when i upgraded to windows 95 and i thought windows 95 was God compared to windows 3.1 now i look back and say 95 was just as bad as win 3.1 my favoriteos is mac os 9.2 it is awesome. i dont like mac os x very much. anyways, mac os 9.2 is just organized and is great for school work. it is really easy to use and again, it is just really organized. if you want to play games then get a windows os, but in my opinion, if you are going to just have a comp at your house for like basic stuff, then get mac os 9.2 or something. just my 2 cents, i am sure million will disagree with me, but i speak my mind

Win Me, I had to reboot every hour, and format it every month, really sucky :)

I liked windows 3.1 it was simple and It worked (kinda)

The worst Operating system IMO is either Windows ME (i have a box running ME and everytime I try to run a program it gives me an unknown error) or Plan9 cause it's a peice of S*** for now but I hope that it becomes better because I like the name lol

The Best would have to be DOS 6 because it has never givin me any errors or had to be rebooted (it's 9 years old) BSD is also one of the best IMO because it's well unix and unix rocks. Linux not much to say about it, it works better than windows. Windows 2000 is also a farily good operating system runs well doesnt kill your system resources.

dos 3.3 or 4 or something ...i dont remember xactally, THAT was the worst

Worst is Win ME. Least Security+Major Exploits+Great Instability