Agreed! I never had a computer that locked up and crashed so much as when I had one with XP. I was SO thankful just to get away from that one it was ridiculous.
The one I have now has 8.1, which hasn't given me any issues with working, but I don't really care for some of the layout.
I don't need all that stuff they put in it. Like news, cooking, shopping, and so forth. All I need is my desktop and what I have on it. Also, I preferred the old start menu, before they started putting it all over the screen like they have it now, and I don't need that hover mess off to the side.
I think you missed the point of Edge. Edge is Internet Explorer with a new engine (free of all the legacy cruft from IE11) and new branding. It's like what Firefox is to The Mozilla Suite.
And Vista was even worse. 8.1 I hated straightaway; I wish I would have bought W7/64.