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Regarding Sage. Sage provide the software for the card reader machines at my local SPAR. Frequently lunch time many of the employees on the tills are waiting fo

Regarding Sage. Sage provide the software for the card reader machines at my local SPAR. Frequently lunch time many of the employees on the tills are waiting for card payments to complete which slows down serving customers. As for the rest. I don't specifically remember many issues with Windows XP, if the install was kept tidy. Symantec was probably the source of your woes and many people used to use AVG.

kalleboo 5y ago
When XP came out I remember many people vehemently staying on Windows 2000 since Windows XP just added a bunch of "fisher price bloat". It wasn't until some service pack (SP2?) that people upgraded.
- YEwSdObPQT 5y ago
  People used to say a lot of nonsense back then. The thing that slowed down XP a lot was ClearType (which was off by default) and the animations. If enabled Windows Classic theme (I forget what it was called) it was as fast as Windows 2000 and looked exactly the same. The other problems that people frequently had was that a lot of software used Win 95/98 only hacks which wouldn't run on XP (or anything NT based).
proactivesvcs 5y ago
XP definitely improved with age, any by SP2 was a pretty decent operating system. Other than the fisher-price approach to the GUI and naming schemes I don't have a book of gripes against it :-)
- YEwSdObPQT 5y ago
  The GUI could be set back to classic Windows quite quickly. There was also the Zune, Royale and Royale Dark (unofficially leaked IIRC) themes that looked nice. XP 64bit (for x64 machines) however was the best Windows OS I've ever used. Fast and super stable. People used to complain about Vista being bad. However that was mainly a problem with 32bit Vista. 64bit Vista was again amazing.