Good read: history of XP

[dmiranda]

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-xp

[sonyu]

nothing beats a jet2 holiday except Windows XP

[modnar]

There is also an interview with David Cutler on Youtube that tells why XP is such a mess.

[NojusK]

On 8/24/2025 at 2:59 PM, modnar said:

There is also an interview with David Cutler on Youtube that tells why XP is such a mess.

There's also an article <LINK> that talks about XP being a mess(not by David Cutler). Of course, it's NOTHING compared 'modern' Windows...

[dmiranda]

Yeah, it was a good read. Currently available in webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250401024102/https://www.geocities.ws/siliconvalley/2072/whyxpbad.htm

I remember those days. I was a very late adopter of XP (2003 or so), because 98 had at the time most of what I needed except (towards the end) stability. I gave up on 98 when I got to this forum. XP vanilla was indeed bad, but nlited and properly tweaked it was/is like the old 98, only more stable with and capable of running more "modern" apps (software at the time). Edited September 4, 2025 by dmiranda