Auto hiding scrollbars and useless online help even when you don't have an Internet connection. Ah, and gray on gray, 1px borders and usage of titlebars as window content. And Automatic Updates, Automatic Restarts, Automatic Encryption (they know the key), Automatic ID ( you are a good citizen and don't want to make anything stupid).

Every click, keyboard tap, and peripheral event, are now logged and (most) of those are then sent back to Microsoft.

With Windows' socket-hogging, its a miracle they can be this invasive and only use that much RAM.

The same question could be asked about modern Linux distros versus 1990's.

The architecture has been changed fundamentally. AFAIK the old windows 2000 had flaws beyond repair. On the other hand the UI overlay build on UI overlay built on UI overlay, making everything a html page etc was terrible direction

You might be thinking of win9x. Win2k had no flaws and was perfect in all ways. I will not be taking questions.

My bet is on Windows Millennium Edition (Windows ME). That was broken version. Windows 2000 was good.

While WinMe was 98 successor and meant for home use, Win2k was business oriented.

God WinME was such hot garbage. Windows 2000 Workstation ran everything that ME ran. I fucking gamed on it, and did everything. It was faster and more stable, than ME. I never understood why people I knew who were computer nerds ran that steaming pile of shit.

> Win2k had no flaw

Win2k could only display 16-color icons in its systray

Nobody needs more than 16-color icons.

—Bill Gates

Interestingly enough Windows 7 boots faster (in a VM) than both Windows 10 and Windows XP. It feels faster than Windows 10 while running too.