This brings back a lot of memories of the various Windows iterations. I remember how excited people were with Windows 3.1. It was multitasking and multithreadiing. Except that it wasn't really either of those. However it did emulate those functions quite well.
I remember the hype surrounding Windows 95. It was the be all and end all until it was released with so many bugs that it took several updates to fix. By then Windows 98 had been released. That was a great improvement and then Windows 98se was released. That was perfect, except like all editions of whichever OS you choose, it isn't.
Windows 2000 was hyped as the best yet because no one had said anything bad about it; until it was released and then no one had anything good to say about it.
Vista was said to be good until people started saying it wasn't.
Then there was XP and 7.0. I used 7.0 before it was on general release to the public (my secret how I did that).
In fact I really have no quibbles with any version of Windows. They have all had their good points and bad points. Software and OS are an ever evolving too; and it's best to remember that. (Sorry, Andy, that last wasn't a dig at you, but a general observation)
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