Why was Windows XP such a great operating system?

because you were 12

>>59755258
During the beginning years it wasn't. It was insecure, older applications had tons of problems, and it marked the beggining of Microsoft's telemetry spyware being built into the OS.

the field and market was full of enthusiasts back then. Now its all about fat and lazy devs making $$$$ profit

It was just a bloated Windows 2000 with a shitty bubbly interface and serious performance and security issues until SP2 came out.
All people who claim XP was good suffer from baby duck syndrome.

>>59755258
I remember refusing to upgrade from 2000 to XP because it required a whole gig of ram to properly

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>>59755258
Windows 98 was the bomb.

>>59755383
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGLhuF3L48U

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>>59755258
>maki poster

>>59755258
because you were retarded when you used it and didn't know any better.

PROTIP: NOTHING that Microsoft makes is great. They make fucking garbage. Windows 7 is shit and so is Windows 10.

>>59755258
12 years of support. And it can still run while the people still support it. There are some third party software that lets you run 2000 just fine.

>>59755354
On the up side, you can still use 2000 just fine with a little work.

Because I love having to reinstall the OS every 6 months.

>>59755493

The alternatives are worse

Think about your scale of value for abit.