WinXP SP3 is the best, most stable and most compatible OS Windows has ever made. Just having something because it's "new" doesn't mean shyt if it's not superior to what you already have.
I can't believe so many people still use Windows XP
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I seriously don't remember anyone liking XP years ago because all the spyware and adware problems and windows firewall being easy to bypass.
But I guess I'm not remembering clearly or this is all retroactive championing
But I guess I'm not remembering clearly or this is all retroactive championing
the next guy
Superstar
if you compare XP to win98....and especially the clusterfukk that win2000...its night and day...all cause microsoft realized to stop fukking around and use NT kernel.
95 and 98 were basically unsecure pieces of shyt which script kiddies of today would demolish in half an hour.
XP is still the most popular and stable consumer-based OS
win 2000 was cool.
Problem with win98 was IE was part of the shell thus exposing the backbone of the system. All of this was done to fight netscape.
I seriously don't remember anyone liking XP years ago because all the spyware and adware problems and windows firewall being easy to bypass.
But I guess I'm not remembering clearly or this is all retroactive championing
Yea forreal. XP was cool and all but I remember that being the MOST vulnerable OS ever. I used have to fix horrifyingly slow computers due to a huge influx of Spyware/Adware.
Golayitdown
Veteran
I use XP in my a VM for apps that I don't want to touch my OS. Very solid and stable. I won't say it was always great, but now it's great for me cause I keep a pretty vanilla install.
THE GAMING MARKET HAS BEEN CARRYING HARDWARE FOR YEARS. THE AVERAGE USER DOESN'T NEED 1/4 OF THE POWER TODAY'S COMPUTERS PUT OUT.
yseJ
Empire strikes back
no it wasmt. if you compare xp security and 98 security, its night and day
problem was xp was released when internet really started to get ubiquitous...and it was THE system...so people started to share vulnerabilities online and writing online spyware and shyt.
whereas in 95/98 era the viruses were all either programs that deleted shyt off your computer or big bulky trojans that people used to fukk with others online...also not that many copycats and script kiddies... back then there was less info about internet, computers and in general it was limited to fewer people.win98 had so many security problems itd get exposed in an hour today, I swear.
like, you could withhold a process name from task manager...at will
so a virus could just chill somewhere you wouldnt ever see it without external tools or knowledge of programming.take it from someone who was trying to be a script kiddie back then....those systems were definitely NOT as secure as XP.
my home pc still has XP..my laptop and netbook have 7 on it though
my gateway pc my mom bought for me in 2000 had that shyt on there 
...shyt was garbage
right and as far i now microsoft is still supporting this along with the 64 bit version until sometime in 2014
Poppa_Dock
:gladlebron:
i thought iw as the only person on earth who ever used ME
used win 2000 too for a while although it had a bunch of problems after using osx for 2 years ill never go back to windows though
used win 2000 too for a while although it had a bunch of problems after using osx for 2 years ill never go back to windows though
@ win xp and ie using people
I'm cheap and it does the job
