When I got my first Personal Computer long time ago (in the 20th century), it was running MS DOS. I remember being fascinated by the “realistic” computer games of that time, especially Doom and Dark Forces 3D action games. Oh, sweet times indeed…
Then Windows 95 came. At first, it felt somewhat uncomfortable, because I was already used to MS DOS, which was fine to me, and didn’t want to learn something completely different. But time passed by, and I started to use Windows 9x exclusively, and in fact I didn’t even know that an alternative (Linux) exists! But Windows just got worse with every new version, and it reached an apogee with the release of Windows ME (“Mistake Edition”:) ). Yeah, I really hated that OS. It was VERY VERY buggy! But everyone around me used Windows, so I just thought that issues with Windows are inherent to computers in general, not to this particular OS. So I thought…
When I started to use Windows XP, it turned out to be more stable than Win 9x family. But still I was having issues quite often with Explorer quirks and famous Blue Screens Of Death. Only with the release of Service Pack 2, Windows XP became a stable system. But still it had issues with security, and generally one with an Internet connection should use at least a decent firewall and antivirus scanner, constantly running in the background and using computer’s valuable resources, otherwise Windows PC can be easily infected with some virus or a spyware!
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