Wow, I have not used Turbo Pascal since 1988 when I graduated. Learned it on a TRS-80 actually, can't forget those Green or Amber monitors with 5 1/4 floppy drives.
Thanks for the memory recall
No. Windows 8 had little to no spywhare, is actually faster than 7 but it has the dreaded start screen, nothing that you could not fix with start8. Windows ME crashed often, but was shotlived and replaced by XP, which is a much better windows in itself.