Nah, that goes to either Windows 2000 or Windows 7.

GeekyBear 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Windows 2000 was the last version of the Windows NT lineage with Dave Cutler in charge of everything.

His no-nonsense attitude towards fixing known bugs was sorely missed in later versions as Windows quality began its decline.

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SanjayMehta 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Windows 2000 Professional was peak Windows for me. Skipped XP etc thanks to mac. Then 7 for a while.

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DrBazza 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is the correct answer. Win2k was probably the most solid and cruft-free release that they did.

Then the enshittification started with Window XP, jelly-mold/curved glass buttons, activation, and .NET everywhere, followed by the disaster that was Vista.

They released Windows 7, and somehow then decided, yet again, to screw things up with Windows 8 because 'mobile'.

	▲	pjmlp 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If only .NET was actually everywhere like Swift on Apple, or Java/Kotlin on Google land. Instead we keep having COM with shitty tooling for the relevance it has on the OS API surface, especially since Vista.