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Ah, it's a cycle repeating itself. I remember when Microsoft first released XP it was considered bloated (UI-wise) compared to Windows 2000 and Windows 95/98/ME
by reisse 2y ago
Ah, it's a cycle repeating itself. I remember when Microsoft first released XP it was considered bloated (UI-wise) compared to Windows 2000 and Windows 95/98/ME. Then Vista came and all of a sudden XP was in the limelight for being slim and fast!
- aleph_minus_one 2y agoEven when Vista came, people told all the time that they consider Windows 2000 to be much less UI-bloated than Windows XP; it was just that of the "UI bloat evils" Windows XP was considered to be the lesser evil than Windows Vista. I really heard nobody saying that XP was slim and fast. BTW: Windows 7 is another story: at that time PC magazines wrote deep analyses how some performance issues in the user interface code of Windows Vista that made Vista feel "sluggish" were fixed in Windows 7.
- heraldgeezer 2y agoI mean yes the default XP UI looks like bloated fisher price UI. But it has a classic mode that makes it look like Win 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_visual_styles#Windows_Classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_visual_styles#Windo...