Add to the good. Add to the bad. And somewhere in the middle...
Add to the good, Windows 98. It covered over the warts in Windows 95, and arguably could have been called Windows 95.1, or maybe Windows 95D.
Add to the good, Windows 2000. Plain Jane, before Microsoft tarted up the user interface successively with XP, Vista-vomit, 7, 8-vomit, and 8.1. The very first useful Microsoft product designed to work without DOS. Rock-solid.
Add to the bad, Windows 8. Who in their right mind got the idea to cobble together a touch-screen user interface when desktop users depend on keyboards and mice, and not a touch-screen computer was in sight? Then Microsoft blames Dell, HPaq, Lenovo and the rest for not designing, building and selling a computer platypus that would work adroitly with either touch or keyboard/mouse.
Add to the neither good not bad, but somewhere in the middle, Windows 95. It was good because it was ground-breaking 32-bit software and it kinda-sorta worked. It was bad because USB was notoriously unreliable and it was full of bugs and quirks finally fixed by Windows 98.
Puhleeze! Let's do a complete job of both roasting and praising Micro$oft!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
