See
Windows Vista.
Microsoft promised Windows Vista would be better. In the end it turned out to
be not only worse, but infested with all kinds of things that track and monitor everything you do on your computer, even when you're
offline. By the way, if you want to disable them you can't. Many have (appropriately) nicknamed it Windows ME 2.
When looking for a new OS a friend of mine suggested
Windows Vista. But I decided I didn't want Microsoft breathing down my neck and I didn't want an OS that's about as stable as a poorly made block of
C-4 in the passenger seat of a Ford
truck driving on the bumpiest road in the world. So I got Linux instead. If you really want Windows, go with Windows XP, as it's the only stable version of Windows. Just don't get Windows ME 2.