With Windows 7 upon us next week, it’s time to take a quick look back at the good, bad and downright ugly of Windows versions past and present.
So our first look down memory lane focuses on the mighty boot screen. Windows boot screens aren’t exactly a scientific representation of the performance of each version of Windows, but the sea changes in the move to Windows 95 and then to XP are clear, while Vista’s blank space probably said more than we ever knew at the time about how the OS would be received. Anyway, on with the (slide)show!