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THANK you so much for the XP one. XP's UI is my favorite of all the Windows UIs. It had just enough modernity to feel sleek but still had contrast to be easily seen and read and understood.

Windows 7 UI was a bit too flashy and employed looks over readability and Windows 98 was too old fashioned and also suffered from a lack of contrast with all the grey.

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I never enjoyed the XP one. Somebody called the Fisher-Price ui, and I think the remark is not too off. I would always switch to the "classic" UI, which I think was the same as Windows 2000, which in my opinion is the best of all (it is a similar but different from the one of Windows 98, especially in color choice and icon)

Was XP your first OS, by any chance? I really like the 98 UI, but that was my first and it evokes really nice memories.

XP was my favorite as well, at least among the Windows. Not the first OS I used (that would be DOS 3). But it was the last MS OS I used.

Oh it was my favorite OS as well, it crashed way way less and did its job admirably, I just prefer the Windows 98 UI.

So basically windows server 2003. Peak desktop productivity UX.

Yep, exactly.

XP x64 was a lovely desktop, and was essentially 2k3 desktop. Last Windows system I enjoyed using.

For me that was KDE 3. In fact, KDE 3 had such a fan base that even until today there is still an active port.

Windows 98 was my first, but I loved XP UI the most, especially in the later years when Microsoft launched the ZUNE XP theme.

XP with classic theme was like 2000 but with a warmer palette. My favorite.

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