This poll is to find out the best Microsoft operating system till date

I voted for DOS, it was the first OS I learned, and when I say learned I mean it... I knew what every file did, what could be deleted to make room on the hard drive. I was very fond of DOS 5 it was the first one I really got my teeth in to. I liked DOS-Shell, strange I know but it was useful, especially for my wife. DOS 6 was a bit on the big side, see we complained about bloat even then. It did bring drive compression, a little unreliable but a God send for the small dives we had back then. 6 also gave us boot menus in autoexe.bat and config.sys. My 286 would boot to a choose of several configurations. Max memory, straight in Wolf3D, another for doom. One for the wife (DOS-Shell) and one to my office package, the name of which I can remember. Later once I has a 3.5 inch 1.44Mb drive to go along side the 5.25 one I could install Windows 3.1 I still used the boot menu for the games to cut Windows out of the loop, saves RAM, 2Mb doesn't go far...

I still revert to the command line sometimes even now. Nothing like IPCONFIG /ALL to really find out WTF your network is up to. Also when I'm repairing someones PC I like to use the command line a bit when they are watching me work. It always impresses the hell out of them, and they think that they are getting their moneys worth "Cos it this geek bloke has to "hack" the computer to make it work then he must be good, and there was no way I could have repaired it myself with system restore"

I have used everything from DOS 3.3 to Vista, and i love vista, it was by far the easiest to install (with the exception of DOS of course) and i have had the fewest problems with it, actually i can count on one hand how many i have had since i installed it in february 2007

I must admit Vista was very easy to install, it felt very natural to use. I didn't mind the security thingie popping up, cos I'm used to it from using ubuntu. So if you were wondering where that came from, now you know...

I primarily vote for Windows 98. You can imagined how many things did I learn with this OS... So after I got educated in this OS, I can't vote for any other, no matter that I using today Vista...

i really like the Vista look but i hate the UAC control -.-

Me too...

If you hate it, why don't you just turn it off!

Ok to turn it off, but what if I just want to turn it off for just one application? I want it on for all my applications, ecxept for one. It's a program for my card reader (like a driver) and it bothers me when I keep seeing UAC asking me, if I wish to run this program every time I turn the compter on!! This specific one, yes I need it every time to run. I want to tell my PC to permit this one and ask for the rest programs I have!!! How can I do that?

As far as I know, you can't. This is a big feature request for Windows 7.

I take my first statement back... you can because anything is possible, but you would have to reverse engineer the UAC part of Vista's code and throw an exception for your program... which translates to "you can't"