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The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade

Posted by timothy on from the jesux-not-mentioned dept.

itwbennett writes "Hundreds of Operating Systems were released during the past decade, finding their way into microdevices, watches, refrigerators, mobile phones, cars, motorcycles, jets, even the International Space Station. Some worked; some even worked well. Others, sadly, didn't. And some were just ahead of their time. Blogger Tom Henderson takes a look back at the best and worst OSes of the decade. Among the worst? Vista, as you'd suspect, along with WinME. But what about GNU Hurd? And some of the best? Solaris/OpenSolaris 10, Mac OS X, and newcomer Google Android."

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  1. Silly article. by kellin · · Score: -1, Troll

    I like how the author rates Vista a bad OS and Server 2008 a good OS.

    Neither are any good. 2008 is nothing but headache inducing around this place. It blue screens more than any other OS Ive seen.

    --
    GWB to President of Brazil - "You have blacks, too?"
  2. Re:IMHO solaris has a really bad userland by mweather · · Score: 0, Troll

    Makes sense. XP is faster than Win7.

  3. Re:like...WHATever, dood... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Vista gave the good admins the ability to have a completely safe computer.

    Since when were good admins running Windows on their own machines?

    WinME was the best of the 9x line

    I knew 1 person who struggled on with WinME, everybody else I knew back then ran (or quickly upgraded to) 2000 professional; even for home use. What a ringing endorsement from the market for WinME!

    Tom Henderson may be a moron but hardly indicative of slashdot...

    Linux adherents and Mac fanboys may cry foul, but Microsoft's latest server operating system (for all of its sole-source lock-ins) has the best in terms of enterprise federated security and authentication.

    Which dialog is a (MSHTML embedded) web page today? I've found it to be a PITA but I run it as part of a small workgroup, legacy inhouse apps I migrated to a VM while we work on porting them to unix. If I had to have a Windows workstation for any reason, I'd run Server 2008 but that doesn't change the fact that Windows is a POS OS.

    OSX and linux are better desktop OS's than any version of Windows will ever be. On the server... Windows remains a joke for anything other than basic workgroup functionality. Like many slashdotters, I admin Windows XP, Server 08, OSX, and linux (as desktop and server) every working day. When I say that Windows sucks, I'm in a position to know.