Windows 11

[Alex321]

Indeed, Windows 7 still gets my vote for the best Windows ever. Only the lack of security patching stops me using it now. If I had the budget for a 24/7 server/dedicated firewall, I'd happily still use it.

And surely Windows 8 put paid to the bad odd numbered concept

Well the suggestion that odd-numbered versions were to be avoided didn't necessarily endorse even-numbered versions.

Come to that, Windows 5 (aka XP) wasn't that bad.

There was a reason I put "in the know" in quotes

 

[tyred]

I'm still waiting for 3.1 to make a comeback. Who needs file names with more than eight characters?

 

[newts]

I'm still waiting for 3.1 to make a comeback. Who needs file names with more than eight characters?

That would be no good to me as I have a very large folder of site reports named 'idiotswhocantreadinstallationmanualsoruseaspiritlevel'

 

[Mike_P]

I'm still waiting for 3.1 to make a comeback. Who needs file names with more than eight characters?

To be strictly correct 3.11 as 3.1 was patched very quickly after release. Bit confused on the numbering as if XP was 5, 95 and 98 were presumably 4 and 4.? but that still leaves ME, 2000 and Vista with only 6. Was ME a 4.?, vista 6 and 2000 excluded?

 

[DaveReading]

W95 = 4.0
W98 = 4.1
WMe = 4.9
W2K = 5.0
XP = 5.1/5.2
Vista = 6.0

 

[Rezillo]

To be strictly correct 3.11 as 3.1 was patched very quickly after release. Bit confused on the numbering as if XP was 5, 95 and 98 were presumably 4 and 4.? but that still leaves ME, 2000 and Vista with only 6. Was ME a 4.?, vista 6 and 2000 excluded?

3.11 aka WfWG. I must be one of the few people in the world with a registered copy of Trumpet Winsock.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Vista was a bit of a mess really. I am liking Win 11 a lot though. 5ghz 10 core processor and fast SSD make it shine.

 

[DCBassman]

Vista was a bit of a mess really. I am liking Win 11 a lot though. 5ghz 10 core processor and fast SSD make it shine.

My son has just rebuilt, some i9 ir other, 10-core 20-thread gaming monster!

 

[lazybloke]

Vista was a bit of a mess really. I am liking Win 11 a lot though. 5ghz 10 core processor and fast SSD make it shine.

I not calling for the return of EDLIN but there's something wrong with needing so much horsepower to make an operating system shine.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I not calling for the return of EDLIN but there's something wrong with needing so much horsepower to make an operating system shine.

MS say a 1ghz 2 core cpu will do the job! But that with old RAM and a hard disk would be annoyingly slow.

 

[MontyVeda]

An SSD will make any OS shine

 

[Grant Fondo]

An SSD will make any OS shine

Too true. I put one in an old laptop recently, with extra RAM free win 10 upgrade from win 7, all for 40 quid. Huge difference.

 

[lazybloke]

Yeah, nothing compares to an SSD.
Although SMARTDRV.EXE was pretty cool

 

[keithmac]

Whats the hard drive space used just for W11, someone said it came in a 60gb or something daft like that?.

 

[DCBassman]

Minimum spec is 64GB, but it uses little more than 10 did, if any. Previous min spec was 32GB.