The Windows 98 one never gets viruses or hacked. It's got no bloatware and starts almost instantaneously every time. It's incompatible with some stuff on the web, but you would be surprised how much you can still do and how damn quickly. On modern computers it runs faster than it ever did back in 1998. We've all been sold a bill of goods with the cycle of new OS's.

I abhor Vista and dislike the way files are displayed on Windows 7. Change for the sake of change is never good. So I stick with Windows XP for most online tasks. I'll give Windows 8 a shot just for the hell of it, but, to be honest, today's programmers just don't have the same inspiration or soul that they did in the late nineties.

That's also why cars, today, look like spit and the only decent designs are rehashes from the sixties. The build quality of today's merchandise is deplorable. It has now become an art form to know which old products, and from which past decade, to purchase NOS or used for a better quality of life.