Windows XP
When Windows XP first released, people criticized it for having a theme that they hadn’t seen before in Windows. People thought it was very kiddish and appealing to children, not being taken as seriously for the large userbase of the time. There were also criticisms about how fragile Internet Explorer was (I’m not kidding, I was there and Internet Explorer back then was at its most insufferable.).
But these days, just because of how bad Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and now 11 have been, people have praised Windows XP so much.


XP sp1 and 2 were pretty hot garbage. Sp3 though? 🤌
Compared with ME though? I remember the first couple times I used ME it crashed. XP was at least always based on the NT Kernel and therefore had some basic stability.
Indeed. XP at its worst was better than ME at its best