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Happy Birthday, Windows XP.

Launched October 25, 2001.

I still use it. Do you?

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revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

It was the best, easiest to use and accurate. But I moved on to the subsequent dogs for safety.

kvanhook Loc: Oriental, NC

I sincerely wish I could still use it. I ran 16 PCs on a network and it was easy to use. I loved XP. It actually worked.

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

It was easy to use, but my computer guru son said it was time to retire it.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I ran it in Parallels Desktop on my 2008 MacBook Pro, so I could use MacOS, Windows, and Linux apps on the same computer, wherever I was. THAT worked perfectly!

Win2000 was my favorite version of Windows prior to WinXP.

WinXP Service Pack 3 was very stable. Unfortunately, it became very hackable. So I haven't used it on the Internet since 2012.

WinVista and all flavors of Win8 suck. Win7 was fine. Win10 is fine. Win11 will need some work, as all operating systems do to become usable.

MacOS 11.6 is VERY stable after about a year in the market. And TODAY, 10/25/2021, here comes MacOS 12... which I will avoid until version 12.2 or 12.3 at the earliest.

I still have a shrink-wrapped copy of Windows 7 Professional around here somewhere...

john451 Loc: Lady's Island, SC/Columbia, SC

I have one desktop that still needs it only to run an old Win 3.1 version of Calendar Creator Plus. The program won't run on anything newer than XP. I started printing our extended family calendars back in 1998 and they have expanded over the years to show all the birthdays, anniversaries, etc. for 25 families. Newer versions of the program can't handle the volume of data.

therwol Loc: USA

Windows 2000 was really an enterprise/business operating system. It was an advancement of Windows NT and added plug and play. Some consumer oriented hardware and software such as gaming video cards and games were not compatible with it. I'm guessing that was because there was little incentive to provide updated drivers etc. for an operating system that few consumers used. XP changed all of that. It was released approximately a year later and was based on the same NT code, far more stable than the Windows 9X software (including ME) that froze and crashed all of the time. I still have XP and Win 7 that I can use on an old laptop with a quick swap of hard drives.

I think that the problem with Vista was that it had too much going on for the hardware of that era to handle. I believe that if you put it on a modern machine, there would be far fewer complaints about it. Windows 7 was basically Vista with all of the unnecessary background stuff dialed back so it ran a lot faster.

Windows 8 was actually an improvement over Windows 7 under the hood, more stable, faster and more secure. It was the GUI that totally sucked. There were tricks at the time to bypass all of that and make it look like Windows 7.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yes, Win2000 was as you said, a business operating system based on NT. We ran our photo lab with it. The reason we liked it was its GUI similarities to MacOS, which we had used to run Kodak's KPIS, prior to Kodak's DP2.

XP crashed on us all the time until Service Pack 2 was released. By Service Pack 3, everything ran stably.

Oddly, Win7 was faster than both Vista and XP for our uses.

cmc4214 Loc: S.W. Pennsylvania

I wish I still had it

shadows creation Loc: san antonio

Still use it. On 8 of my computers and laptops.

dave.speeking Loc: Brooklyn OH

Will give up my XP when they take the keyboard from my cold dead hands.

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

I regret updating from XP.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Ah, yes. I remember it well.

utahpete

Totally agree.

RightOnPhotography Loc: Quebec,QC

I guess you are still using 8-tracks cassettes and watching VHS videos 😊