Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 days agoXP was probably their most solid OS. And that shouldn’t be a brag.
Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 days agoXP was probably their most solid OS. And that shouldn’t be a brag.
dustyData@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Reputation is such a strange phenomenon. XP was considered a disaster at launch. It took them years to repair everything that didn’t work.
The rollout of 64 bit architecture support was so sloppy that people were holding on to old hardware so as to not have to install the x64 version of XP. The premiere of the NT kernel meant that nothing had drivers, most software wasn’t compatible yet. DirectX 9 broke half of old games compatibility. There were also two entirely different versions of the shell with dramatically different start menus. Some versions didn’t support multi core CPUs.
It wasn’t until the end life of XP and the launch of Vista that people started to cling to XP and its reputation switched due to a mix of nostalgia and fear of the much worse launch of Vista.