Wait ... what?

what deal?

No, not really. It took a whole two service packs for it to reach the point of polish that it did, plus Windows XP was the start of update bloat. What's in this mysterious 150 MB download package? Who knows! Waha! Plus Windows XP's 64 bit support is spotty at best.

I prefer to speculate over things like the Chicago, Longhorn, Cairo, Nashville, Neptune, and Odyssey projects.



Also, look at the graveyard of lost features.
Let's just get rid of that maybe. There's stuff dating back to the 70s and it's a deep hole.

I would say that Windows 7 was the best and the Windows XP is the second on the list. Personally, I think we will not get anything closer to Windows 7 and XP while Microsoft is de-facto is a monopolist. Only confrontation can bring something to the table, which is not seeable in the near future.

I know of a group of people that would agree with the original poster.

They are called malware writers. The incredible library of applications consisted of viruses, worms and Trojans.

Microsoft didn't even start to care about security until Service Pack 2 - the third iteration of their "flawless OS".

As usual another instance of the OP posting something inflammatory and specifically designed to incite responses then the OP ignores every reply.

This is the definition of trolling. Just because he has become more infrequent doesn't mean it is ok.

Windows XP was a mess. Security was not present, driver standard? Pfffff
Every programmer did hiw own thing (that's why many games from that time have problems running on modern systems where standards are enforced). Most games had to change the desktop resolution as well.

Constant crashes were normal back then, becaue many drivers run directly in the Kernel.
These days almost every driver runs in a protected environment and can't crash the system (except graphic drivers of course and some others), the Kernel keeps running.

The difference between now and then? Then I had to fix something every second weeken on my sisters computer. Now it has been months since I even looked at that thing.


Of course it was a big step forward from Windows 98se (no, I don't count Windows ME as viable operating system), but it is not even close to a modern operating system. I DID like it, I even owned a copy of Windows XP 64. But I am honest enough to say: I'm glad it's gone.

A fun fact: many people don't realize this, but "XP" means "experience points" in many RPG games. So when they were using Windows XP daily, they were using Windows Experience Points, in a way.

To me, Windows ME users always seemed kinda selfish. It was always all about THEM! "Oh, look at ME!"

Also it is no coincidence that Arnold Sveitsinnäkkäri used to say "Hasta la Windows Vista, baby!" in Terminator 2, several times. Since he was from the future, he was aware of that future Windows release that would be running on Skynet computers.

Yet Linux puts all the drivers in the kernel, but crashes are rare nevertheless.

(Note that they're usually distributed in the form of loadable modules, but they still run in the same address space, so a bug in one can still trigger a kernel panic, which is the Linux equivalent of the Windows BSOD.)

Play Undertale.

I'm not going to spoil it because the reveal doesn't happen until near the end of the game (but does happen in the normal route).

I like Win XP and Win 7, and still use both and have never had to reinstall either, and I used them a lot, though Win 7 more than Win XP these days.

Both have good and bad points, and I have honestly never been able to decide which one is better.

I also occasionally use Win 8.1 and Win 10 ... though I mostly rather not.

While Win 7 certainly does some things better than Win XP, Win XP has a higher level of freedom ... and less nanny software. In my case though, Win XP is no longer connected to the web, so security issues with it don't really play a part. It is a great offline work PC though ... and gaming machine.

I sometimes imagine what running Win XP on a modern PC back in the day would be like ... how lightning fast it would be and far less bloated software etc.

We've come a long way with hardware, but software makers are intent on demanding more, and so each improvement barely makes a difference, and sometimes I think my Win XP machine actually runs faster. The price of progress I guess, and I am so sick of modern bloat and demands ... unnecessary to my mind.

We could be living in a Digital Golden Age, but we aren't.

IMOPRTANTE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A3Zi7Vw6vo

Hmmm i'd forgotten them. Then again i didn't touch XP til SP2.

A big problem with 95/98 and earlier versions crashing is often when installing software they replace DLL's with their own versions. Then a mismatch or missing calls and boom, not hard to see. A lot more software i see has dll's in the same directory as the binaries and only dependencies and other things are installed to the OS, making it much better than it used to be.

Though a change in 95 where installed dll's going to a system directory instead were dropped in with the binary folder would have probably done a lot for stability.

Regardless, XP is my favorite OS to put in a VM. Though i had tasks i needed XP for that i can't do anymore, takes a big portion of that away.

Oh well.

DickInSon.

And didn't you just love the simplicity? Back in those days, one didn't have to skim through a thousands ads just to get to where they wanted. You didn't have any unwanted preinstalled programs. Just pure intuitiveness.

And don't you miss the sound of the disc whirling inside of the tray?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xnSoLMJ_4k