You're OS progression on your main PC?

A BASIC system with my Atari 800(not sure the OS, just booted into BASIC I believe)
Dos 3.3
Dos 5.0
Dos 6.0
Dos 6.2
Dos 6.22 avec Win 3.1
Dos 6.22 avec Win 3.11
Win 98
Win 98se
Win ME
Win XP
Vista 32
Win XP(I enjoyed Vista so much I reverted!! :D)
Vista 64
Win 7 64
 
Windows 3.1
Windows ME (used for 1 day)
Windows 2000
Windows XP (Most problem free once it hit SP3)
Mandrake
Freebsd 4
Windows Vista (used for 1 day)
Ubuntu 64
Ubuntu Studio 64
Frugalware (did not like)
Absolute (acpi did not work)
Mint 7 (runs okay)
Zenwalk (I liked it for a while)
Gentoo LiveCD (never had a successful install)
gOS
Arch Linux 32 (runs great)
Slackware (never crashes, gets boring ;P ; don't like compiling)
OpenSUSE 11 (LiveCD only)
Windows 7 64
Debian (2 hours)
Crunchbang (Almost perfect)
Arch Linux 64 (Best Linux)
 
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DOS
Mac OS 8
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows Vista x64
Mac OSX
 
Windows:
95
98
NT Server
NT Workstation
3.11 (yeah, in this order)
98SE (OEM package...)
ME
2000 Advanced Server
2000 Professional
XP Pro
XP Home
Vista Home Premium 64bit
7 Ultimate (to arrive, soon)
OSX 10.6 (I think that is the most recent version, on a Dell Hackingtosh!)

This was across several desktops and laptops, mostly when I was an IT worker.
 
First Computer (age 3-4)
MS-DOS 4.0 w/ Windows 3.0

Second Computer (age 4-6)
MS-DOS 5.0 w/ Windows 3.11

Third Computer (age 7-11)
Windows 95
Windows 98

Fourth Computer (age 11-17)
Windows 2000
Windows XP

Fifth Computer (age 17-20)
Windows XP

Sixth Computer (age 20-present)
Windows Vista
Windows 7

I dual-booted the fourth and fifth computers with various versions of Ubuntu, but with the current one I just run Ubuntu in a VM.
 
Windows 3.1/MS-DOS 5.0, then 6.22
Windows 95, release then OSR2
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista x64

I skipped 98 and Me entirely. Not sure if I can be bothered to switch this system to 7, but I preordered a copy of that for whenever it becomes necessary.
 
current pc (dc opteron)

Solaris 10
Windows XP x64 (lost optical drives...would not pick them up ever again)
Windows XP x64 (reinstalled and it did it again)
Windows Vista Business 32-bit (worked fine but not with pci wireless card)
Solaris Express Community Edition (wireless worked with no configuration, go figure)
Windows Vista Business 32-bit (took the pc downstairs)
Arch Linux (got tired of windows)
Ubuntu Studio 7.04 (was having a weird USB keyboard issue with several linux installs and after swapping ports and installing this it worked so I kept it)
Kubuntu 9.04
...I've just kept going with ubuntu since then since the packages are the same

on my old athlon xp box

Windows 98SE
Windows XP (like 20 times lol)
Windows 2000 Professional
 
On my main PC
1. Commodore Vic 20 Basic
2. MS DOS 5.0 + Windows 3.0
3. MS DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11
4. Windows 95
5. Windows 98
6. Windows NT 4.0
7. Windows 2000
8. Windows XP
9 Ubuntu 7.04 to 9.04
 
3.1
95
98
98SE
ME (with very few problems, actually.)
2000
XP Home / Pro / x64
Vista IA32 / x64
Win7 x64
 
First computer:
95
98
ME

Current Machine:
Xp pro x64 and x32
Vista
Xp home x32
Vista x64
Ubuntu
Mint 7
Slackware
Arch x64
Vista x32
W7 Ultimate x64 - current

My desktop is now a windows only machine since i got my laptop.
My laptop has been

Xp home x32
ubuntu
crunchbag
slackware 12
slackware 13
gentoo
ubuntu 9.10
Mint 7 - current
 
Windows 95 w/ some sort of weirdo shell replacement from Packard Bell
(took me a minute to figure out what this "start menu" stuff was)
Windows 98
Windows NT 4
Windows 2k (I was on 2k for a long time.)
Windows XP sp1 > 2 > 3
XP sp3 dual boot w/ debian stable (then upgraded to testing)
Windows 7 RTM dual boot w/ Debian testing.
 
Dos 3.X (Green monitor fuck yeah!)
Dos 5.X (Green monitor fuck yeah!)
Dos 6.X (Green monitor fuck yeah!)
Win 3.1 (Coloured)
Slackware*


* Up to present (postin' on Vista though).
 
Commodore 64 Basic V2
Amiga Workbench 1.3
Amiga Workbench 3.0
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows XP RTM/SP1/SP2
Windows Vista SP1 (didn't switch until after the first SP was out)
Windows 7 Ultimate RC
Windows 7 Pro final
 
On my first PC a 486
MS Dos 6.22 with Windows 3.11
Then NT 4 workstation
And finally Windows 95c
My second PC an Athlon 1100
Windows 98se
Then windows 2000 Pro
And finnally XP Pro
My Current PC an Athlon XP 3200+
XP Pro
 
This is since I've been building my own PCs
Win 95 (just about every version)
Win98 se
Windows 2000 pro
Windows XP pro
Vista 64 enterprise

I've owned PCs running DOS 3+ and windows 3.11
 
Apple ProDOS on a ][c
MS-DOS
DOS/Windows 3.1
Windows 98
Windows ME (didn't last long)
Windows 2000/Redhat 7.0
nearly all RH/Fedora releases through FC4
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu 7.04 - 9.04 with various others in VMs
 
Overall:
DOS
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows 2000
Windows XP - all versions
Windows Vista 32 and 64
Windows 7 32 and 64

Current Desktop:
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Windows Vista 32bit (didn't like it on my desktop, loved it on my laptop)
Windows XP MCE 2k5
Windows 7 Beta x64
Windows 7 RC x64
Windows 7 RTM x86 from MSDNAA (had too many problems with 64bit in one or two programs, will go back when bugs are worked out)

Laptop
Vista Pro
Windows 7 Beta and RC
Windows 7 RTM x86

HTPC1 and HTPC2
Vista Home Premium 32bit
Windows 7 Beta and RC
Windows 7 RTM x86
 
Overall:

Win 95
Win 98
Win 98se
Win 2k (still run it on the server)
Win XP

Current Machine
Win Vista 64bit Home Premium (came pre installed, ran it for 3 minutes)
Ubuntu 9.04
 
Mac OS ? (Mac Plus)
Mas OS ? (Quadra 610)
Win 95
Win98
Win2k
Fedora 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11

Current Main:
Fedora 12
 
Here is mine:

DOS 6.20
DOS 6.22
Windows 3.1 (This ran off my DOS 6.22 install.)
Windows 3.11 For Workgroups (This ran off my DOS 6.22 install.)
Windows 95 Beta
Windows 95 OSR2.0
Windows 95 OSR2.1
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (Dual boot)
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows 2000
Windows ME (Dual boot)
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Professional SP1
Windows XP Professional SP2
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP1
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
Windows 7 RC Build 7100 (Still running this, I haven't upgraded to RTM yet.)

I've run the beta and RC versions of everything from Windows 95 through Windows 7 as well.
 
Desktop(s):

Windows 3.11/DOS 5.0
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows XP (variously Home, Professional and Professional x64 from SP0 days until last month)
Windows 7 Professional (CURRENT)

Laptop:

Windows Vista Business
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
Linux Mint 5
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty (CURRENT)
 
I'm 18 and my experience has been:

Mac 7 - yay reader rabbit
Windows 98 - thought i knew everything about computers (gator is great!)
windows 2000 at school - i know nothing about computers, but should learn
windows xp - ooh pretty interface
ubuntu - works well enough to surf net on my laptop (was 5.xx back then)
windows xp - built my first computer (used xp from '01 - '08), got into gaming
windows vista - laptop came with it; vista actually isnt so bad

still using vista, but am going to be backing up stuff soon to install my shiny new MSDNAA windows 7
 
These are for computers I have owned and used as my primary PC, I used others as well.

Sinclair Basic
Atari OS Rev. 10
MS DOS 3.0
MS DOS 3.3
MS DOS 5.0
Windows 1.0
Windows 386
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11 (WFWG)
OS/2 Warp
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows 2000
Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate (32 bit then 64 bit)
Windows Professional (64 bit)
 
DOS/Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows XP (started dabbling in using Linux around mid 2006)
Windows Vista/Slackware dual boot
probably buying a Mac OS X machine in the future...
 
Windows 3.1 ('94-'97)
Windows 95 OSR2 ('97-'99)
Windows 98 ('99-'02)
Windows XP ('02-'09)
Windows Vista (on laptop ('08-'09)
Windows 7 RC1 currently on all computers
 
MS Dos 5.0
MS Dos 6.22
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000 Pro
Mac OS 10.2
Mac OS 10.3
Mac OS 10.4
Windows XP Pro
Suse Linux 10
Ubuntu 8.04
Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows 7 Ultimate (32 and 64 bit)
 
Windows 3.11
Mac something, the CPU was 33MHz...
Windows 95
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 build 7201
 
MS-DOS 3.2
MS-DOS 3.2 & Windows 3.0
MS-DOS 5.0 & Windows 3.1
MS-DOS 6.0 & Windows 3.11
MS-DOS 6.22 & Windows 3.11
Ameritech Linux
Windows 95
OS/2 3.0
Windows NT 3.51
Red Hat Linux
(note: at one point I had DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.11, OS/2 3.0, Windows 95, and NT 3.51 all on the same computer, that was a really fucked up bootloader)
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Mandrake Linux 5.0
Mandrake Linux 6.0
Mandrake Linux 7.0
Windows 2000 Pro
Mandrake Linux 8.0
Windows XP
Ubuntu
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
OS X Leopard
OS X Snow Leopard

About the time the Windows XP came out I stopped having multiple OSes on my computers and switched to multiple computers. Within the past year I have gone back to multiple OSes on the computers, but this time I am using Virtualization instead of different partitions and screwing with the boot loaders.

I still have mutiple computers though. Two boxes used as servers, but they get moved from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 and back, or Debian Linux, to Windows back to Linux. The Macbook Pro, the Windows laptop, the Linux netbook, the Windows Desktop (for gaming), etc.
 
1. Commodore C64
2. Apple IIc
3. Commodore C128
4. MSDOS 4.0
5. MSDOS 6.0
6. MSDOS 6.22
7. Win3.1
8. Win95
9. Win95OSR2
10., Win98
11. Win98SE
12. Win2K Pro
13. WinXP
14. Vista Ultimate
15. Win7 Ultimate
 
Ok I'm sure I'm gonna miss something here.

1. DOS 5.5 <--- Loved the file manager
2. DOS 6.2 / Windows 3.1
3. Windows 95
4. Windows 98
5. Windows 2000 Pro <---- Luckily I missed ME
6. Windows XP
7. Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty
9.Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
10 Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid
11.Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
12. Windows 7 RTM <--- Just trying it out but it's cool
 
On my current:
XP >
Vista >
XP >
Kubuntu >
Dual boot Kubuntu - Windows 7 64-bit


My long list of OS's:
Windows 95
Windows 95 OSR
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME > Became a frisby after two days
Windows 2000 Pro
Windows 2000 Server
Windows XP 32-bit
Windows Vista Pro 32-bit
Windows 7 64-bit
Kubuntu
EasyPeasy
Red Hat
Linux Live
Suse
MAC OSX (Panther, Jaguar, Tiger, Leopard, kitten, Persian, El Chubracabra, whatever the next one is)

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.
 
Question is rather ambiguous so I'll be very general:)

Windows 3.1 - 1992-1996
Windows 95 - 1996-1998
Windows 98 - 1998-2001
Windows XP - 2001-2008
Vista 64 - 2008-2009
Windows 7 2009-current

XP was in it for the long haul:)
 
MacOS 7 (1995-1998)
MacOS 8.1 (1998-1999)
Windows 95 (1999)
Windows 98 (1999-2000)
Windows Me (2000-2002)
Windows 2000 (2002-2003)
Mandrake Linux (2003)
Windows XP (2003-2008)
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit (2008)
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit (2008-2009)
Windows 7 RC 64-bit (2009-)
and soon Windows 7 Pro :)
 
DOS
OS2 (I think that is what it was.)
Win3.1
Win95
Win98
Win2k
WinXP
Linux
WinXP & Linux
WinXP
Vista (Current)
 
I don't even know what my first one was except that it was a green screen and it sucked using it lol...I'm guessing it was some form of DOS.

98se=>Win2k pro=> XP Pro=>Vista 64=>Win 7 (once my upgrade disc comes in)
 
Earliest versions of Mac
Win95
WinNT
Win98
Win98 SE
Win XP Home
Win XP Home SP2
WIn Server 2003
Win XP Pro
Win XP Pro SP2
Win XP Media Center
Win XP Pro x64 SP1
Ubuntu 7
Fedora
Sabayon
Win Vista Beta series
Win Server 2008 RC1
Win Vista Home Premium
Win Vista Home Premium SP1
Ubuntu 8 Server Edition
Win Vista Ultimate SP1
Win Vista Ultimate SP2
Win 7/Vienna Beta
Win 7/Vienna RC1 7068
Win 7/Vienna Retail/OEM Final Build 7601
Ubuntu 9

Thats about it, may have skipped out some other Linux Distros and IBM Server Linux's.
 
Ok I'm sure I'm gonna miss something here.

1. DOS 5.5 <--- Loved the file manager
2. DOS 6.2 / Windows 3.1
3. Windows 95
4. Windows 98
5. Windows 2000 Pro <---- Luckily I missed ME
6. Windows XP
7. Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty
9.Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
10 Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid
11.Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
12. Windows 7 RTM <--- Just trying it out but it's cool

There was no such thing as Dos 5.5 was there?? I never heard of it...
 
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