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[–] 18107@aussie.zone 218 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 39 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Where is XP and Vista on this chart. Millennium edition is missing but we don't count That one anyway.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 43 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They're all NaN and were discarded at outliers... Yeah, they're that bad compared to 2000.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What about my first windows, the 3.0 😭

I think I jumped over from DOS at 3.1. High five!

[–] wackyheartfluid@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I counted it. They said it was 'more stable'. It was not. I used to know my CD license code off by heart.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 16 hours ago

XP in ASCII is [0x58, 0x50] and Vista is [0x56, 0x69 0x73, 0x74, 0x61]. If we add all of them together we get 168 (0xB2 for XP and 519 (0x207) for Vista

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

If you could get *Windows ME to install without crashing.

[–] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

ME was the abbreviation for Millennium in Windows ME.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The only version of windows I ever purchased.

They owe me now.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

You should take it to small claims court

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

This one's coincidentally accurate, though (relatively; 8 should be in the negatives, or dropped off the chart altogether like ME, and 98 and 98SE should be split).