[blue_cookeh]

This conveniently misses out versions such as 2000, ME, and 8.1. The "miss" of Vista can also be largely attributed to lazy hardware manufacturers that didn't want to rewrite their device drivers.

[baobun]

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.

[timbit42]

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, ...

[Kye]

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.