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Was this peak Windows UI? I would say so, but the Active Dekstop stuff wasn't the right move. Fisher-price came next, with Windows XP. At least you could easi
by bluedino 4mo ago
Was this peak Windows UI?
I would say so, but the Active Dekstop stuff wasn't the right move.
Fisher-price came next, with Windows XP. At least you could easily switch back to classic.
And then Windows 8, we won't even talk about that.
- petilon 4mo agoThe title bar of windows in Windows XP was Fisher-Price. But I thought the rest was OK.
- hnlmorg 4mo agoI hated XP themes too I felt the taskbar was the ugliest part of the themes
- cake-rusk 4mo agoWindows Vista / 7 was peak UI for me.
- Dwedit 4mo agoI think Windows XP looks very nice if you install the Royale theme. It's a shiny and glassy version of the default XP style.
- Telaneo 4mo ago> I would say so, but the Active Dekstop stuff wasn't the right move. Even so, you could completely ignore it if you wanted to!
- madaxe_again 4mo agoAlmost. The NT5 RCs, which became windows 2000, were better IMO - not massive differences but it hadn’t been slobbered upon by marketing yet.
- rib3ye 4mo agoMaybe more importantly, Win2k was the first windows version actually WORKED in a predictable way after years of unstable post-Win3.1 (Win95 and onward) production releases.
- ConceptJunkie 4mo agoYeah, but I would still usually see Explorer crash within an hour of a fresh Win2k installation. Windows 2000 was peak UI, but it wasn't peak Windows. That was Windows 7. And Windows 7 was advanced enough that you could still go back to the Windows 2000 UI.
- ChoGGi 4mo agoWindows XP sp3 with Fisher Price turned off, till 7 came out of course. (The first sp release where the system wasn't infected within 10m or so of being connected to the net)
- kreddor 4mo agoI really liked the luna silver and olive green themes. They were not too bad to look at.