Windows 3.0 -- okay.
Win 3.1 -- very okay.
Win 95 -- okay, very new.
Win 97 (yes, there was such a thing!) -- so trashy it barely got a rollout and was pulled almost the next day.
Win 98 -- very okay, especially with SE.
Windows Millennium Edition -- if you've never heard of Windows ME, rejoice and be glad.
Windows XP -- Excellent!
Windows Vista -- Sucked.
Windows 7 -- stable, a good platform.
windows 8 -- well, ah....

You missed one important one in your list, Rapparee. Windows 2000 (NT). It was the robust system we used for years at the university library while everyone was going from 98 to ME and to XP. The NT file system is probably still in use in the background. I set up a dual platform in an ME computer so I could have a stable system on one side but still get access to the functionality of the computer software applications for the DVD drive, etc. Finally Microsoft released those files updated for NT or XP and I was able to ditch the ME platform.

SRS