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by baobun 904 days ago
2000 -> hit, ME -> miss, XP -> hit, Vista -> miss, 7 -> hit, 8 -> miss, 10 -> hit, 11 -> miss

8.1 is more like a SP for 8.

That should cover all the major desktop releases for the past 23 years.

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Windows 2000 doesn't really count any more than WinNT 3.x or WinNT 4 do as they were for business use and weren't very popular on desktops.

Win1 -> miss, Win2 -> miss, Win3 -> better, Win3.1 -> hit, Win95 -> ok, Win98[SE] -> hit, WinME -> miss, WinXP -> hit, ...

XP needed a few service packs to be really good. It broke everything at launch because of the kernel switchover. By SP3, most software was caught up or covered by compatibility layers.