Posted on 04/27/2024 3:10:42 PM PDT by Signalman
These are the most popular computer operating systems from 1985 to 2024, based on market share. The latest numbers from 2003 on are readily available from Wikipedia and Statcounter. The first half of the video required a bit more research, which entailed finding and converting sales figures into market share. These numbers may be different based on what OSes are included in the stats, this is why different videos have slightly different numbers.
Gotta short summary?
I’m with the Penguin. Most reliable (and honest) OS I’ve used.
DOS 3.3 is what I started with in 1988. I got a free copy of Quicken V2 from the Intuit driver (I was with Fedex on the mid-peninsula at the time).
5-1/4” floppies were a big part of my life for a time.
VMS was the best by far.
-SB
“Gotta short summary?”
No. If you watch the short video (7 1/2 minutes, you’ll see why.)
Who cares? Linux Mint and Win 10 (when I must)
It’s interesting to me that Windows Vista and Windows 8.0 didn’t stay long as No. 1. Probably because they were both duds.
Yes, Unix lost bigly.
I thought WIndows 7 was the most user-friendly windows.
Windows 7 is still my favorite OS.
Gotta short summary?
Sorry, there’s 5,800 lines of source code that would need to be compiled and debugged to provide a substantive answer to your question.
Windows 10 is the precise reason we went to Linux, and never looked back.
Commodore KERNAL (Vic-20),Z-80, CP/M, DOS, Linux 3 (Redhat), windows 3.1, NT, Celerity UNIX, Vax/VMS, IRIX...
My home computer is a Windows Vista (long story, there). These days I only use it for word processing.
And I will say one thing in defense of Vista. Using it is like participating in an exciting game of chance. It might do exactly what you want it to do. Or it might present you with blank windows when you expect something else.
Boot it up, and roll them dice!
I own 7 computers, all have a specifically different purpose, from car repair to satellite TV/radio.
2 are dual boot with Linux as primary. 1 is windows only for my wife’s games, the rest are all Linux.
Living in rural Hawaii the most remote place on earth,
you adjust.
For one thing it is probably the best OS that Microsoft ever put out.
For another, I was working at Best Buy and two days before 9/11 we came in on Sunday morning and got "indoctrinated" about Windows XP: all that it could do, the new features, etc. It was like attending a church service! And then of course two days later the attacks came.
I'm forever going to associate WinXP with that particular time in my life.
I wish they had been able to keep/maintain the XP GUI with all its features, and ‘simply’ update “under the hood”, if you will. So many folks used and worked with XP and still miss it’s basic simplicity.
Oh well....time marches on...
I learned to program on Fortran punchcards with a Univac computer the occupied 2 air conditioned floors of the E.E.R.C. building at Michigan Technological University in 1976. Good times. Houghton/Hancock in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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